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Show tlINTAH tJoom tJINTAR C01UOTY COUNTY COUNTYRATE ttWjHERBiKATE nfU\\ nfU nfURJiS \ \ ' RJiS RJiSB1TE B1\TE B1 TE RATE \ HIGH mGn IN STATE TESTS Ten Uintah Ulntah county dairy herd herds herdsEhowed herdsshowed ; aho-wd aho wd Ehowed showed - production records fuabove far farabove above state average averages * of the UtalDairy $ Dairy Herd Improvement as associatlon aasOclation sOdation sociatlon acordinc aeordlng acording to the tbe Marchreport Marclreport report of the association , Just released re reEaied .ased ased . , Eaied .asedY leased . Y March maPked marked marked the first time in inhistory inhistory iihistory history that Uintah herds were wereauthoritatively wereauthoritatively wer werauthoritatively < authoritatively- authoritatively authoritativelyte - . , te tested ted and W were wereeligible weneligible n > eligible tot for foi comparison willother with withother withother other Utah herds The testingwas testin testing testingwas @ was done dOJ'le dOJle dope ' by V K Doan DoanThe DoanThe DoanThe The report xhows shows that the Cproducing 66 80 66producing 80producing ( producing cows in Uintah Ulntah coun county county county ty which are owned b by associa association association associatlon tion member members * produce producean produced an aver average average averaee age of 847 pounds of milk dur durIng durjug during Ing jug the month with an aver averMe aver4ge averJkze Me 4ge of 351 35 315 1 pounds of butterfat butterfatIshly .illy illy , . hly five counties shbwed bettciaverages better betteraverages betteraverages averages for milk production anconly and andonly andonly only one county county-Box county Box - Box Elder Eldershowed Elder- Elder Eldershowed Eldershowed - showed a hifher higher average foibutterfat for forbutterfat forbutterfat butterfat production productionState productionState productionState State averace average for the number numberof numberof numbciof of cow cows which whieb tested 40 pounds poundsor poundior or more was 10 19 percent , ax as com coin compared coinpared cornpared pared with 28 percent for Uintab Ulntali Uin Uln Uincow tab tali county State average for forcows forcows cow cows producinc producing more than 150 50 150pounds 50pounds 5pounds pounds of butterfat butterfa t or more waU was waspercent J . ! percent Uintah Uintab countr count countrhad counthad county hai hai4B had hadii 4B ! ' ii percent The percentThe report showed that th thherd the theherd theherd < herd of Lester Binfham Bingham of Mac Mae Mae8er Maeser 8er ser er was one of the top herds of ofthe ofthe oithe the state for production aver averages averages averaxes ages The Bingham herd of fine fineregistered fineregistered fineregistered registered Jerseys produced an anaverage anaverage anaverage average of 1098 pounds of mill mllt milyc milycand mlltand milland ) < and 51 S 517 1 7 pounds of 01 butterfat dur durIng during durIng Ing the month Only three herdsin herds herdsin herdsin in the entire state showed betterbutterfat better betterbutterfat betterbutterfat butterfat production averagefthan a averages averagesthan erages eragesthan than Mr Bingham's Binghams ' cows cowsdlthOlficers cowsOfficers dlthOlficers Officers of the Uintah County Countyairy CountyT CountyTairy ' airy Herd Improvement a asoclatlon asoctation as- as asDelation - Delation soclatlon soctation are elated over the theMarch theMarch theMarch March report and have made madeplans madeplans madeplans plans for the regular regu1ar testing o oassociation of ofassociation olassociation association cattle so that monthly monthlycomparisons monthlycomparisons monthlycomparisons comparisons with state herds herdscan herdscan herdscan can be made Rex Winder iipresident president islpresident AllIson of 01 the association . , All AllIson Allison isl Ison Remington is vice president , , I Iand I II and Lyie Lyle Remington is secretaryThe secretary secretaryThe : The Th testing enables dairy mento men menI mento I to determine which whicb of their cowiare cows cowsare cowsare are the money makers by a measurement mea measurement measurement surement of the milk and butterfat butter butterfat butterfat fat produced against the feedconsumed feed feedconsumed feedconsumed : consumed by the animal Th Thtesting The Thetesting Thetesting < testing is a national programCounty program County programCounty Agent William WilUam C CWlPtaker CWhitaker CWhitaker WlPtaker Whitaker re reports orts that eHorts efforts eHortsare effortsare effortsare are under way now to get 480 480of 48Cof 01 of the county's countys ' dairy cattle into intothe intothe intothe the testing program and laterto later laterto laterto to test most of the county's countys ' 4200head 4200 4200head 4200head head of stock |
