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Show FARM TRAIN COMES THRU ON JUNE 20 By LVMAX If. RICH Utah County Agent The seven-car agricultural train will pass through Utah county June 20 and 21, visiting visit-ing Springville, Spanish Fork, Salem and Payson on June 20, at Pleasant Grove nearly all day on June 21, Strawberry day, with American Fork the final stop in the evening. The state train starts in Salt Lake county Monday, May 19, and ends at Cache county on June 24. Road Cooperates Cooperation between the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad, which has aided the past two years, the state farm bureau and all local and county farm bureaus, is making mak-ing the exhibition possible. This year the project promises to be better bet-ter than ever. No long talks are scheduled and a few hours spent in learning new methods will make up ten-fold the time lost in the fields, according to Lyman H. Rich, county agent. Stress Breeding i "Better sires", will be featured in i the livestock car, to be made up i in Utah county. The effect of I dairy sires on production will be I shown by dam and daughter com- I parisons. The advantage of using registered dairy sires in grade herds will be featured also, showing show-ing how high production may be built up on a herd basis. The son of a proven sire as well as sheep and baby beef are to be exhibited, bringing out the importance import-ance of purebred sires on productive product-ive livestock. The dairy products car under the direction of the three dairy cooperatives of the state including the Utah Wasatch Dairy, will feature fea-ture quality products and the importance im-portance of the dairy industry in comparison with other industries in the state and 'nation. The sugar beet industry featuring featur-ing a car by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and County Beet Growers' Grow-ers' association will show the importance im-portance of using beet sugar, the value of beet by-products for livestock live-stock feed along with cultural methods of the growing crop and sugar beet diseases. The Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Co-operative association will have a car built mainly around poultry diseases. A qualified veterinarian will show slides and charts giving latest developments on the control of poultry diseases, as well as other poultry information. Farm Bureau W ork The state farm bureau has a display dis-play on the flat car showing the "new set-up" of the state farm bureau bu-reau with the cooperatives as a part of the great state agricultural organization of the farming public, i The home and community car also under the direction of . Mrs. Iola T. Jensen of the state farm bureau will bring a real message to the farm women and heads of families on home and farm beauti-fication beauti-fication and the ideal farm setup, on an economy basis. There will be a passenger car for convenience and rest furnished furnish-ed by Aldon J. Anderson, traffic manager of the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad. The mayors of all towns, county and local farm bureaus, . Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes directors and committeemen committee-men are working up the puhlicity and making arrangements for the visit of the train to the county. |