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Show POLICY IN FARING SAVESJNARIZONA Attention to Dairy Herds Brings Good Results Th policy learned In l'tah to follow fol-low diversified farming and particularly to save their dairy herds has brought a large measure of success to a colony' of I'tahns in Halt Klver valley in! Arizona, where all their neighbor who; 1 followed the cotton boom are fsclng ' 1 financial disaster, according to J. K. j 1 Ioimati. Salt l-ake chief of the West-1 1 ern district if the dairy division of.' the I'nited State bureau of animal In-'; dustry. Mr. Dorman has Just complet- j ed a survey of the Southwest, where ' i the cotton growers are facing the big problem of their existence. When the cotton fever hit the South- j west It took Salt Klver valley by storm' as well as Imperial valley, California.' In Salt River alley the farmers hsd atVAAA head of Cairy stock of high grade which they ruthlessly sacrificed in order or-der to save their Innd for cotton. They sold off 0 000 bead w.th the exception of the I'tah colony. The price of cotton is now ttew 'be production rout, ac rording tn Mr. lrman. and the farmers hardly know which way to turn except that they are getting back malch cows ss fHSt as possible. To relieve the situation sit-uation lite business men of I'hoenlx are organizing fr financial relief to buy cattle nnd the farmer are breaking up cotton fit Id and re see ding In alfal-ra. alfal-ra. The business men plan to bring back 10 000 head of cows at once. Instead of being stampeded by the rottnn Itoom the I'tahns held their rlairy stock and built silos to preserve feed. In spite of the surrounding depression de-pression they" are quite prosperous. In L'olorado. New Mexico and parts of southern California dairying Is flourishing. flour-ishing. The situation points an unmistakable unmis-takable moral to the state of Utah. Mr. Dorman say. rairvln will eventually even-tually constitute the tiackbone of the igrlcultur.il industry In this state, he ipines. and farmer are rap:dly beginning begin-ning to realize this fact. . |