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Show waiting until fall to test their herds. Was also talking to Evan Patterson Pat-terson about his dairy herd. Evan and his brother Don. have a small but good herd of cows that last ear produced an average aver-age of 471 pounds of butlerfat per cow. Evan says their goal is to have a production average ot 500 pounds of buttcrfal per cow on 20 cows. I think that if they continue under tlfjir present program, they will make 500 pounds o better. One thing Evan is convinced of is that it pays to feed heifers well. They put their heifers in with milk cews and feed them with the milk herd after they are about a year old. Sometimes heifers are underfed under-fed and when they corns into production the feed goes for growth and development rather than milk production. Evan figures that 20 cows thai will produce 500 pounds of butterfat per cow will make as much net income as 30 cows producing 400 pounds of butter-fat. butter-fat. A study made at Purdue University of an Indiana dairy herd, it was found that this farmer would have made $75t more net income if he would have cut the size of his herd one third. The upper third were high producers but the lower one- third lacked $145 each of paying for their feed, labor and overhead. jeSSMTI AGENT By GRANT ESPLIN Beaver County Agent Spring means time to clean up farmstead and get rid of fire and other hazards in Beaver County, advises Grant Esplin, agricultural extension agent. J. Donald Wadsworth, extension exten-sion agricultural engineer at USU, says a thorough clean-up is important from a safety standpoint stand-point because it eliminates dozens doz-ens of hazards. "Cleaning away trash rids a farm of fire hazards. Picking up . scattered debris prevents costly falls. A good clean-up job and setting of things in order greatly great-ly improve efficiency and well-being well-being of the whole farm family," he adds. A neat, orderly farm reflects credit on its operator. The whole family can take part in the annual an-nual elean-up. Let's get an early start, Mr. Wadsworth suggests. A 4-H tractor club is being or-ganied or-ganied in Beaver. All boys who are old enough to operate tractors trac-tors and are not yet 21 are invited in-vited to join the club. Rex Smith will be the leader assisted by Reed Smith and Jay Swindle-hurst. Swindle-hurst. These men took a leadership leader-ship course in 4-H tractor maintenance main-tenance at Beaver in February. Those interested should con: tact one of the leaders or the County Agent. Clover mites, which invade hundreds of Utah homes each year, can be controlled out of doors, advises Grant Esplin, Beaver County extension agent. He says that whije infest- ations are most common in the early spring, clover mites cause' annoyance in fall, during periods per-iods of the winter, and sometimes some-times in the summer. There may be just a few mites in a window or millions of them about the home: Where-ever Where-ever a mite is cruched, a small red streak is left. Sometimes mites are mashed on walls, curtains, cur-tains, drapes and beds. Dr. George F. Knowlton, extension ex-tension entomologist at Utah State University, says a mala-thion mala-thion spray at one half strength can be used to control clover mites. He advises home owners to cover a strip about 15 to 20 feet wide all around the house and to spray the foundation ofl the house. The lower walls also may be sprayed if the insecticide used does not stain or discolor the paint. Aramite 25 per cent wettable powder, half pound per 15 gallons, gal-lons, or ordorless white kerosene kero-sene may be used instead of malathion. Parathion and TEF are not recommended for mite control around the home. They are very poisonous to persons and pets, Dr. Knowlton says. The drive to get Beaver County Coun-ty accredited as a modified Brucellosis Bru-cellosis free county is gaining momentum rapidly. Evan Patterson, Pat-terson, tecnician from. Beaver who tests cows and vaccinates calves for this program was in my office Monday. Evan says he has tested and vaccinated about 3,000 cattle and calves since January 1. If the work continues as it is now, it is possible that Beaver Bea-ver County could become accredited ac-credited by this time next year, or possibly even sooner than that. To date, out of all the beef cows that have been tested for Brucellosis in Beaver County, only one reactor has been found. If no higher rate of reaction is found than has been the case up to now, Beaver County can be accredited in the first test. Cattlemen. in the Pine Valley area have tested the required number of cattle. All cattle in Wah Wah Valley have been tested. Most of the Milford Valley cattlemen have tested or will test this spring. Testing in Beaver and vicinity is progressing pro-gressing rapidly at present. All aattlemen in the Beaver Valley Cattle Assn. are having their herds tested. Members o'f the North Creek Cattle Assn. are going to test at time of tagging tag-ging their cattle to go on the forest. A good percentage of the Beaver North and Beaver South Cattle Assn. members have tested test-ed their herds, as have members of the North Divide and West Side Cattle, and Pine Crpek Cattle Assns. Most members of the Minersville Cattle Assn. are |