Show Stockmen Back From Tour Almost returned home Monday from a day 10 farm fann and livestock tour of central central contral cen con California enriched with agricultural know-how know and yet more appreciative of what they themselves have on their farms Dominant theme of the entire tour however became more evident evident evi evi- dent as the trip progressed First Security Bank of Utah and arid Western Livestock Journal of Los Angeles had carefully selected ranches and farms where production was high from Better management As Dick Crow of Western livestock Journal pointed out No longer is fanning farming and ranching primarily a way of life ife You must run your op operations operations opera opera- ra on a on like business-like basis or you rou wont won't be in business long The smaller outfits were more impressIve to 10 the since they hey could best adjust their thinking to operations of their own 1 size Considered by the majority majority ma- ma 0 of tour members as the best est stop was the Hollis Warner ranch at Hickman 60 miles from San Francisco The stockmen learned earned here that to raise beef beet cattle rattle economically performance perform ance of their thelt stock is Ss the prime requisite Dairymen on the tour found foundry by ry viewing the fine operations in n California that their own farms at hone hoie were just asgood as asgood asgood good only not so large The stockmen saw aw grazing land and bought for 5 50 per ver acre years ears ago and now valued at 1000 per acre They saw acres and acres of olive oliv groves where the he land p price ce Is set at per acre The found tome the trip very rewarding warding from an lonal standpoint and they all aU felt elt First Security Bank and the banks bank's able personnel had ad the tour our well organized down 1 to the smallest detail |