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Show AGRICULTURE EXPANDING IN UTAH WITH NEW RESEARCH-TECHNIQUE Funk's G-5757, characterized by high grain content, big yield potential and wide adaptability adaptabili-ty to Utah growing conditions. Cattle raising is an especially espe-cially rapid growing industry. Since 1940 the state's cattle population has almost doubled. Cattle sales generate more cash receipts than any other agricultural product. Cattle are produced in every county in Utah. The dairy industry, the state's second most important agricultural industry, ranks just behind cattle. The five most important milk producing produc-ing counties include: Cache, Box Elder, Utah, Weber, and Salt Lake. The processing of dairy products -- butter, cheese, dry and condensed milk products is also attaining at-taining significant importance. import-ance. Utah is a major turkey producing pro-ducing state. Approximately 4,000,000 turkeys are sold annually. an-nually. Sanpete County is one of the ten top producing turkey tur-key counties in the United States. Other important agricultural agricultur-al crops in the state are sheep and wool, wheat, small grains, vegetables, fruit, chicken and eggs. Agriculture has contributed, and will continue to contribute, contrib-ute, magnificently to the state's welfare and prosperity. pros-perity. There can be little doubt but that as Utah's agriculture goes, so goes the state. Agriculture has always been a major indultry inUtah. Farm income today approximates 300 million dollars annually; close to 30,000 farm laborers draw their livlihood from agricultural ag-ricultural enterprises. During the past few decades Utah's agriculture has expanded ex-panded in many directions. Research and new techniques have contributed substantially substantial-ly to the state's ever widening agricultural horizon. Utah is firmly established today as one of the nation's leaders in this field. Tremendous strides have been accomplished in precision preci-sion planting; especially with sugar beets and onions. Accurate Ac-curate spacing of FilcoatPel-leted FilcoatPel-leted Seeds according to predetermined pre-determined planting patterns has led to tremendous increases in-creases in yield and produced crops with a degree of uniformity uni-formity hitherto unknown. Relatively new alfalfa varieties va-rieties such as WL-306 have allowed Utah farmers to increase in-crease their yields up to eight tons per acre per year roughly three times the state average. Alfalfa once considered consid-ered a marginal crop now ranks as one of Utah's most important cash crops. Corn test plots conducted by Dr. DeVere R. McAllister, Utah State University Extension Exten-sion Agronomist, and Ray Davis, Da-vis, regional manager for Germain's, Inc., a 100 year old western seed firm, have led to the development and in -traduction of such outstanding corn silage varieties as |