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Show Utah County Dairying Has Unlimited Possibilities secure about as good prices. Dairymen of Utah county are going go-ing into Cache next Saturday on a county tour to ."!(.: how they do it. No doubt this will show that men who are dairy-minded and have daiiy farms, should have more cows and better cows, and when this is done, Utah county can be as' large a dairy section as is Cache. Iiy W. J. THAYNE ('(unity Agricultural Afjent Tin; pussibililics for dairying in llliili couniy are almost unlimited because of the small amount of duiiying done in the county now mid In 'auiie of the amount that could bo done. There never was an over-production of anything, ju:;t a poor distribution, which demoralizes de-moralizes the local market but Caehe valley found that as cows an' greally increased in numbers, riuinu'aeluriiig plants increase just ' as rapidly to lake care of the consumption. con-sumption. This is shown in crops now being grown and shipped co-opera co-opera 1 ively. For instance, in the ra:;es of strawberries and onions, the only overproduction was when I hey snipped nut a vt'ry few CUI'a-bnt CUI'a-bnt when they cooperated and grew and packed carloads, buyers came for Ihein and paid the price, which jieilifie:; the expansion here as they have done in Cache valley and other place.; not any better adapted for dairying than is Utah couny. Can (Mali county produce butter fat as economically as other sec-t sec-t io'i;;? 1 .et's make comparisons: Crop yields from U. S. D. A. yearbook, year-book, 1017, are: UaHcv in Utah, 41 bushels per acre Km lev in U. S., 2K bushels per acre Hurley in Wis., 3-1.5 bushels per acre Hurley in Minn., 30.5 bu. per acre, Alfalfa in Utah 2.7 tons Alfalfa in Wisconsin 2.6 tons Alfalfa in Minnesota 2.9 tons Wheat in Utah 33 bushels Wheat in Minnesota 15 bushels Wheat in Wisconsin 24 bushels Wheat in U. S 10 bu. per acre The above three feeds are the 1hree host dairy feeds for cows and can ho grown cheaper in Utah than the oilier dairy staten. Butterfat can be shipped cheaper than the three above mentioned feeds much of which are now shipped out of the county. Our yields are as good as Cache county's, yet Cache county coun-ty had in 1924 45 per cent more cows than did Utah county, but nearly 70 per cent more butterfat was produced and the farm value of the milk and cream produced was about GO per cent greater. Either the Utah county cows were not fed as well as were the Cache county cows or they were not producing pro-ducing as well, due to the fact that Cache valley has five cowtesting associations to weed out poor cows and a number of condensories to pay top prices. Utah county though can have cowtesting associations and ran market co-operatively and |