Show s z p i I F tF r t tr k J 1 a t n nd ny d y i rr rrt t i h IL 4 t l tt- tt tl f GROUP OF UINTAH BASIN members of First Security Bank Livestock Tour pose alongside bus that took them I Livestock Tour Takes Basin Group I To Nations Nation's Largest Ranch Operations kUh Y k HEAD MAN of the Shamrock Dairy herd at Tucson Ai z is visited by livestock Tour John editor of the Western Livestock Journal Journel sponsor co-sponsor of the tour is shown in the background u on mile tour of Southern Arizona Arizone and Southern California ranches dairies feed yards staff photos Visiting cattle callIe ranches along the Mexican border in sunny I Southern Arizona where the size I of the acreage is measured in inso inso so many sections and feed yards up to thirty five thousand cattle deeply impressed a ber bel of Vintah Uintah Basin stockmen The stockmen were part of a First Security Bank tour of five deluxe buses from Utah and three from Arizona transporting approximately people on a trip last week aI I AT THE Santa Margarita Ranch near Sasabe Arizona just 20 miles from the Mexican 1 border the owners enjoy a 92 percent calf crop with ideal f feed ed from mesquite browse and grass The ranch is located at atm atan m an elevation of feet Water is supplied the cattle by the use of dirt tanks and wells with pipelines seven or eight miles in length To 10 serve the head h miles of pipe are maintained After rear rea- reaching citing ching this ranch over several miles of dirt road the visitors were served a Mexican ranch lunch The Fred Boise Jr ranch at Tubac Arizona was next visited and consists of 60 sections or acres The original own own- owners ers of this ranch held it under undera a Spanish land grant The same basic herd has been maintained for the past 55 years Salt is used in supplemental feed at this ranch to gauge the amount of intake i TO PRODUCE a hardy cattle to withstand the intense heat and insects The Willow Springs Sprin s Ranch at Oracle Arizona de de- de developed the type The animal is a crossbreed 38 Brahma and 58 Angus The Brahma secretes an oil from its pores which rids itself of in in- in insects sects and is not molested with the diseases which afflict other breeds The animals are arc good rustlers and produce a calf crop averaging 92 percent The ranch of acres grazes 2200 of this t type pe of cattle A herd of 1000 Holstein cows are milked at the Shamrock dairy near Tucson The owners plan to double this number This dairy uses calf brooderS where the young calves were kept for or two weeks after birth and only have a 1 percent mortality mol mor- The calves this way are arc kept cleaner are arc disinfected and screened from flies and insects Another ranch owned by Stewart Granger near No No- No Nogales gales was visited At the Mickles Mickle's Valley View Ranch at Scottsdale the tour members were shown a number of fine quarter such buch as Rebel Cause Little Request and andI Vanny Bar I AT THE University of Arizo Arizo- Arizona na tested feed formulas and hull bull grading were explained in the preparing preparing of cattle for market I IThe The Benedict Feeding Com Com- Company pany at Casa Grande Ariz Ihas has facilities to feed head I of cattle each six months or o a year ear The company has helped many If 4 youth in feeding projects and their know know- knowledge ledge of feeding is always made available to a youngster Records of the first year of op operation of the company showed that 11 lb of feed were required for each pond of gain figuring the initial weight of to Ibs and a market et weight of 1075 lbs Ibs This has since inee been reduced to around 7 to 71 7 z lbs Ibs of feed pet per pound pond of gain on cattle of comparable and age agee The 2 Bar 26 Bar Ranch Stanfield owned co-owned hy by Wa Wayne ne consisted of of grazing land was next on tour AFTER leaving Yuma the caravan crossed the Colorado flyer which is reduced to a small stream and visited the Imperial Valley one of Amen Amen- I Ameri-I cas ca's richest agricultural areas Stops Slops were at the Joe and Louis lIoUville farm in Southeastern California The crops here include melons let let- lettuce lettuce tuce carrots which are arc produced ed from the 1500 acre farm and andare andare are marketed as far east as New ew York City Cotton alfalfa finished cattle are also Ld A number of fine quarter quarter- horses were also shown at this farm Among the last places visited on the tour were the Orita Land Landan an and Cattle C Co near neal Brawley one une of the largest and most mo mo- tl ru res feeding operations in tha nation with a capacity At the tha Earl Harriss fee feed yard just east of the Brawley city ity limits the visitors were told of hay harvesting and handling I IThe The Kershaw and Sons ranch also of Brawley which feeds head of cattle the Union Feed Yard and the Western Cat Cat- Cattle the tle feeders at Blythe were on the final list of places visited THE GREAT number of starlings at all the feed yards has been a perplexing problem It was estimated that the birds eat enough feed to cost the ranchers 5 for every ani- ani animal ani mal in the yards A poison is being developed which they hope will eliminate the pe pests ts They Tiley swarm down upon the yards like clouds from the sky Some of the Brahma cattle in inthe inthe the yards look like true the sacred cows of India as they stand silently observing the long car car- caravan avan of buses driving by INCLUDED in the tour from the Vernal area were Harold Sargent II hi S DeLos Reynolds Lyman ChI Chlarson arson Lorin Merkley Wm Was B Wallis and C Laurence Fox From Rangely harry Barry Hill Loren Reed and Devon McKee Tri Tr- dell dell i Von Wilkins and Jack Brewer Jensen Roy Huber and Hayden h arrison La- La Lapoint point At Phoenix Wiley Bau Bau- Baucum cum joined the tour Also visit visit- visiting ing the tour were Mr 11 and Mrs I Ray Sprouse of Phoenix Mr 11 and Mrs Irs R B Money of Span Span- Spanish ish For Fork spent one day with the tour in Arizona Mrs 1 Money is the former ormel Mrs II Walter Woolley Mr and Mrs Irs Jack Linkletter of Los angeles were among the California members Jack is the son of Art Linkletter ter The manager of the ranch in Hawaii Riley Hiley Green well was an enthusiastic mem- mem member her ber of the group |