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Show continued Professor Caine. "Farmers "Farm-ers are letting their best bulls go because of their age and making replacements with scrubs.' It was then that Professor Cainc suggested that dairy manufacturing man-ufacturing plants and other organizations organ-izations interested in the dairy business, cooperate with the dairymen dair-ymen in securing better herd sires. He said that the price paid for the old bull for bologne might be used as the first payment for a new animal and cooperative effort ef-fort be used to pay the balance. FEED IS LIMITING FACTOR IN NUMBER OF DAIRY COWS "One of the greatest drowbacks of the. dairy industry in Utah is the lack of feed' said Professor George B. Caine at the annual extension ex-tension service conference held recently at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college. j "Some are advocating doubling i the number of dairy cows in Utah, I which would then place 200,000 cows in the state. The fact is that only a few counties can increase in-crease the number of cows because be-cause of feed shortage." ! Professor Caine pointed out that ' sheep, beef cattle, hogjg, horses and mules in the state require a sufficient amount of feed to maintain main-tain and that the dairy industry could be materially increased only through increased unit production. The quality "of the cows must be improved and not an increase made in numbers. "The greatest blow to the industry in-dustry in the last 18 months has been the increased use of scrub sires in the herds of the state," |