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Show On Utah County Farms With Extension Agents lower; butter twenty-three per cent lower and cheese eighteen per cent lower. The facts presented should make the dairyman realize that low producing pro-ducing cows are not paying their way. Records on the dairy herd give a basis for culling out the bottom of the herd. Profits over feed cost is always the aim of the modern dairyman even though the best cows now are making but very little profit if labor and overhead were considered. The purebred sire is more important now than ever before though the incentive to Duhing 19 30, 1931, and 1932 lhc U. S. D. A. received 6,700,000 requests from farmers and housewives house-wives for twenty per cent of the nioat popular bulletins. Of the 20 preferred, 11 are of homo making pubjects such as canning, foods, Etc. PAIHY OUTLOOK 1933 Dairy farmers should consider a few facts in planning- their years work, taking into account the 1933 outlook. We nave a four per cent' increase in milk cows during 1932, however, yearling heifers now are just about sufficient to replace a normal percentage dairy cows. The feed grain supply Is the largest larg-est in the past 12 years so the possibility pos-sibility of a small increased milk use him is less. The best heifers and cows should not be sacrificed if the dairymen intend to stay in the business. Ask. yourself the question: Is any business making profits? Why then, sacrifice possibly pos-sibly a lifetime of good breeding and later on begin buying back at higher prices. How shall we get the greatest amount of digestible feed per acre? To get the greatest amount of digestible, nutrients per acre for the farm livestock grow more barley bar-ley and fewer acres of spring wheat and oats. The experiment station people tell us that the rates of digestible nutrients per acre stand as follows: If barley be taken as 100 then spring wheat stands at 89 and oats at 68. In other words, by growing barley instead of spring wheat we increase the feeding units per acre 11 per cent, and by growing barley instead of oats we increase the digestible feed units 32 per cent, or practically one-third. one-third. By weight, 32 bushels of barley is equal to 48 bushels of oats. Every county in the state can profitably increase their barley acreage at least until it reaches a total acreage equal to the combined com-bined acreage of spring wheat and oats. In 1930 the acreage of these three crops in the state stood : Spring wheat 79,618 acres or 49 per cent; oats 45,479 acres or 28 per cent; barley 38.C69 acres or only 23 per cent. In other words, flow is likely. More milk was used on farms last year due to low prices and city consumption decreased materially. Storage stocks are extremely low and foreign butter imports are not likely. Feed prices are stated now to be low in comparison with dairy product prices, however, with fat prices at 12 cents, the agent cannot can-not see this relationship. Beef prices are low so farmers see little motive for bulling. All farm prices are so low that farmers still strive to increase their dairy product income. in-come. Total milk cows and two year old heifers increased from 22,129,-000 22,129,-000 head in 1928 to 24,379,000 head in 1932. A ten per cent increase in 4 years and a further increase of four per cent last year. Milk production pro-duction per cow dropped four per cent in 1932 although there was a distinct increase up to the last couple of years. A close economy program, lower protein concentrates concen-trates and feed shifting accounted for the loss. Stock of creamery butter Jan. 1, 1933, reached a new ' low record '-totaling 22,044,000 pounds or about 2,000,000 pounds lower than a year ago. The five year butter storage average was 52,000,000 pounds. Retail prices averaged sixteen per cent lower in 1932 than 1931 for all farm foods. The decline of dairy products was as follows: Milk twelve per cent if we are to get the greatest feeding feed-ing value per acre from our grains, we are growing only about 50 per cent of the acreage of barley bar-ley that we should grow, or we can profitably double our barley acreage. acre-age. Utah county about 11,584 acres of spring wheat yielding 36 bushels per acre. 4,438 acres oats yielding 41 bushel average and barley 3,600 acres yielding 45 bushel per acre. "More feed per acre by growing barley" should be the slogan for 1933. |