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Show UTAH COUNTY IS FAVORABLE FOR DAIRYING Expressing their enthusiasm enthus-iasm over the possibility of building a great dairy industry in-dustry in Utah county, five 1 dairy enthusiasts returned Monday evening from an extensive ex-tensive trip into the leading dairy sections of the United States. Those making the trip were Lee R. Taylor of Payson, L. M. Atwood of Manilla, W. H. Nielsen of Palmyra, James Ritchie of Charleston, Gus-tave Gus-tave Wilster of Logan, and W. J. Thayne,.Utah county agent of Provo. Visit 14 States Their trip took theVn through 14 states, and covered a total distance of 5231 miles. An extensive study of dairying conditions was made in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Illi-nois, Missouri, and Texas, members of the party report. (Jtah Favored 'The big thing learned from the trip is that Utah county is especially especial-ly favored for dairying and that it has wonderful possibilities in dairying dairy-ing if the people of the county will all cooperate very closely in developing devel-oping the industry here," declared Mr. Thayne in discussing his tour. The men were all strong in their belief that Utah is the best place to live and considering crop yields and possibility of growing all necessary feeds, desirability of shipping con-cenrated con-cenrated products to the markets insteod of bulky crops, dairying should be one of the leading industries indus-tries in Utah county and should be made very profitable. Test Cows One thing most noticeable on the trip was that Minnesota and Wisconsin Wis-consin make a business of dairying, having from 12 to 60 cows on each farm, Mr. Thayne explains: Then they make a business of dairying. Cows are secured from members of cow-testing associations with records rec-ords of at least 300 pounds butter-fat butter-fat yearly production. Cows there are sold almost entirely on their production record. Then they are fed grain continuously for maximum maxi-mum production, the county agent points out. Pasture Rotation Another important factor was trie system of pasture rotation seen by the investigators. Every farm had three or four pastures, and instead of pasturing continuously they rotated ro-tated the cows, keeping them on one field not over a week's time, then putting them on another field. Dairy Breeds "Another very noticeable thing was the standardization of a breed in each community. The best dairy sections had one breed exclusively. To do this in many instances, the larger purebred breeders loaned young bulls to the larger dairymen who used them free of charge for 3 years, at which time they were proven bulls, either proven to be good, or bad, and if good, the purebred pure-bred breeder sold them for a good price and loaned the local man another an-other animal," says Mr. Thayne. The men who made the tour plan , on hplding meetings during the fall I and winter with local F. B. dairy I project leaders to give the results to the local dairymen, Mr. Thayne points out. Their efforts should be watched by all dairymen of the county in order that the closest cooperation can be given them in the work. |