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Show 1315 GOOD YEAR FGR Din lira Prices, However, in Some Lines Are Trifle Lower Than Those of 1914. By EE: R. ELDREDGE. What abo'.R dairying in Utah during 19157 Like everything else, it has been going ahead. Tt has been a good year, alihongh possibly prices in some lines have been a little lower than for the venr 1914. The improvement in cattle cat-tle and equipment has enabled our dairy dai-ry men to meet this decline and even i then make a better profit than in years past. ' If anyone doubts there has been an i improvement in our dairy cattle, let him think of our recent state fair and I compare the exhibit of dai rv cattle : with the exhibits of other years, and even casual observation as one passes through any of our dairy districts will i reveal evidence of advancement and i progress in equipment and method. We ! can make much progress yet, and we i are goine to. The slogan for the Utah dairyman should be i 'quality. " This should be the motto of the man who does the dairy work on the farm. Jt should be borne in mind by everyone engaged in the transportation of' milk to the creamery, factory or distributing plant, : and it should be continually before the I operator in every plant where milk j products are handled, and above all, should it be borno in mind bv the consumer. in no class of food products should prices be more clonily defined between choice, good and ord inary grad es than in dairy product. Tt is often the case, however, that the consumer does j not appreciate this. Should Grade High. With our natural advantages for dairying- TTah products should grade high. .Nowhere in America do we have greater possibilities confronting the dairy industry rhan we have in Utah. Our soils are rich, our water pure and i climate ideal, with markets all about ; us. T don't want to introduce a note ot pessimism in this article, but T cannot can-not help saying here lhat we do not appreciate even a small part of the wonderful possibilities that lav before us as a dairy state. If we did there would not 'be a producer who would willingly permit an article to go out bearing a 'tab trade mark that, was unworthy of ranking as first grade. What pastures we might make! And yet very often a past.u re is a waste piece of ground, too wet in some cases, m others too hilly, rough and barren, to permit any reasonable tillage. And our lucerne, the fi nest of alT single, feeds for dairy cattle, sometimes is , sadly abused, and often the only va-; va-; riety that is givt-n to the diet of our faithful cows is alfalfa in the morning and lucerne in the afternoon rbut we are improving silos have made their appearance anil are marking a new era in our feeding methods, for there is no way of providing roughage for dairy cattle equal to a combination of corn silage and alfalfa hay. Barley Good Feed. We are learning that barley can be raised as a grain crop for feeding purposes, pur-poses, an d in a large measure that it will take the place of the corn so extravagantly used by our friends in the corn belt. Bettor shelters are provided pro-vided and attention is being paid to light and -ventilation, i The cry has gone out and is being 1 heeded, ' Shelter your cattle fiom wind and wet, but not from sunlight and fresh air." The rime when a thou-j i sand dollars will be spent in .barn i construction and not ten cents of that ! amount for vindow las, should be i ancient history among the farmers of , jVtah. t Our advancement in the improN ir.g of j our cattle is satisfactorv indeed. Tor an example of this, let an nim think of' that splendid exhibit of 'dairy cattle brought out to the 1'tah state fair of f)l.). Let him leeall the many placards that were placed over t lie cattle of various va-rious breeds announcing the result of ofTi'-ial tests, these te ts in most instances in-stances ex t ending over periods of one year. YYo h;:ve herd of e;:tle bred on farms in I'lah valley? which rtro easily passing into the Register of Merit and t he Advance Register. which means nothing more ur less than admission to the highest aristocracy among dairy animals. And these records have been made only within the la:-t two years, but they are being added to every mo nth. Cattle of Strength. .The cattle that have made these records rec-ords are cattle of strength and individuality, indi-viduality, and that is a characteristic of Utah-bred cat i If stamina and power. It is absolutely within reason to look forward for-ward to a time in the near future when animals among Utah dairy herds will be carrying off the honors for world's records in production. Let anyone visit the herds of cattle in the best'dairy districts dis-tricts of America and then compare them with the best pure bred herds here at home and our cattle shall not suffer bv ! comparison; especially can this be saiH ' of the .lersevs, Uolsteins and Guernseys. In a certain dairy district in the northern part of tite state last spring a j day was set apart for the bringing ort of representative cattle upon the public; square, where some of the choice cattle were gone over by experts in cat tie judging. In that single afternoon there were brought out upon that square lot head of 1 1 olst ein catt le. In that community com-munity $li'0 was not considered toi high a price to pay for a single young animal that has breeding back of it and a desirable individual makeup. It is sat isfactory to note that our state institutions are giving ai tent ion to Lhe improvement of their dairy cattle and that many of them are maintaining herds of! high excellence; in fact, one of tue best, co-operators that the dairy depart de-part men.f of the Agricultural college ! and the dairy division of the depart -meat of agriculture have found in Utah is Governor William Spry, who takes great pride and personal interest in the herds at the various state institutions. Herd Records Kept. Herd records are kept of these cattle and the production of some of them is most gratifying. Governor i?prv has ex-pressod ex-pressod a wish to see all these herds put upon official test and he hopes to sea the time come when a bull calf will never be sold from any of these herds whose dam has not qualified for admission ad-mission to the Advanced Register or Register of Merit. for the Utah dairyman the future U bright. Take for your motto ' ' Quality. ' ' Work and persevere with that in view and there is no power or combination that can hold you down, for quality will win in the markets at home or fn the markets of the world. Put out a product prod-uct that will gain find hold the confidence confi-dence of your neighbors and home people peo-ple and that will qualify you for entering enter-ing any market in the world. |