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Show Fred Ward Elected To Head County Cow Testing Association BY ANSON B. CALL . Fred Ward was elected to head the Cow Testing association at a reorganizational meeting held last week. Present at the meeting meet-ing was Lyman H. Rich, extension exten-sion dairyman from the State Agriculture college. Other officers elected included Reuben Stratton, vice president and Rulon B. Cox, secretary and treasurer. At the meeting, Mr. Rich discussed dis-cussed the dairy herd improvement improve-ment work throughout the state and he showed th'St Washington County was not at the bottom of the list of other cow testing associations, as-sociations, even though some of the others had been in herd improvement im-provement work for several years. However, he still emphasized the fact that there were still some cows in the association that should be culled out and replaced with more profitable individuals. The group went on record as favoring the continuation of the Herd Improvement Im-provement Association and Rob-(Continued Rob-(Continued on page eight) Cow Testing (Continued from first page) ert Phillips of St. George was hired to be the tester during the coming year. Mr. Rich went on to state that all herds in the state that had produced 350 pounds of butter fat per cow during the year were entitled en-titled to a certificate from the United States Department of Agriculture and that the herds must have more than three cows in the herd. There was one certificate cer-tificate awarded and that was to David Foremaster, whose herd had produced an average of 367.1 pounds of butter fat per cow. In taking these records into account this includes the dry periods per-iods of the cows and any dry cows in the herd, so some of these cows may give 400 pounds or better of fat, but when it is considered con-sidered that they are dry for six weeks to two months that cuts the average down. This is to be the average for every cow on the place and not just certain individuals. Mr. Foremaster is to be highly complimented. The other members mem-bers also have some very fine cows but the average is not quite high enough for them to receive a certificate. |