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Show UTAH COUNTY FROM THE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ! . 4v, POINT OF VIEW. , j !.., , Q p j j .J l-ri t J ! -Tihcnclwasa time once when 3ome body, with Utah County in mind, pro l I posed the toast, "To fair women and beautiful horses, but most of all to beautiful horses." We say the per son find Utah County in miiuTbccause the toast fits the county as though it were -made for it. Strangers come into our midst, they rave over our climate, the Jrcst in the state, they tell us complimentary things about the rare beauty of our mountains and of the glistening lake lying at our feet, but they carry away with them a lasting impression of the beautiful driving and draft stuff seen on our roads. At present it can be safely said that Utah leads all her immediate western neighbors in the production of horse-flesh and it can be as safely said that Utah County leads Utah in this particular line. The annual horsefnir held in Provo during the last four years has- brought this point fprcibly home to anyone who may up to this time, have been skeptical. This spring, on the occasion of the Jlorsc Fair, persons who chanced to be. visiting this section, saw lined up on the streets of Provo, close to $200,000 worth of pure-bred stallions, draft and driving. They saw in the draft class the monster Pcrchcron stallion Chrispi, the property of the Provo Percheron Horse Company. the horse that has a blue ribbon to his credit fromi the Lewis and Clarke exposition at Portland in 1904. They saw the pure black. P.ercheron beauty that last fall was awarded sweep-stakes sweep-stakes at the State Fair. The' did . not have lo have pointed out to them the peerless pacing wonder, Ginger, owned by Colonel C. E. Loose, the horse that last year in a hair raising contest with Don, owned by McCoy of Salt Lake, swept Don from the track as a championship possibility and lowered the Utah record for the mile several seconds. Ginger, we think in this section of the woods, is capable of today doing the mile terribly ter-ribly close to 2:07. The people on the sidelines saw Hbrmonic, the new Springville horse, from whom great things arc expected; they saw Sherman Sher-man Bell, the black, beauty owned by Smoot Brothcis; they saw Golden Cross, the Taylor horse, whose sor- rel off-spring speak better for their sire than any words can. Altold and a whole string of his offspring were in the lineup and the get of Brown's roan stamp him as one of the greatest standard-bred sires in the state. Mr. Thompson, perhaps Utah's greatest connoisseur of light horses, now has headquarters at Provo and his honscs arc already seen under the leather of some of the capital city's ! leading horse lovers. Mr. Joseph I SEVEN Farmer it sb kkgskkk Farrcr, Mr. Gene Allen, Mr. Lester Mangum ?Il have standard-breds from Thompson's stable, beautiful beasts with royal blood in their veins. Prodigal Prodi-gal :olts arc becoming common property prop-erty in Utah County. It is horse lovers lov-ers like Farrcr, Allen, Knight and Mangum who arc making the reputation reputa-tion for Utah County in the line of light leather stuff. It is men like these who are causing people to speak the words "Utah County and Elegant roadsters," in the same breath and to come to our county when looking for something classy in light driving. Although Utah County cxcclls all comers in the line just mentioned, her fame from an animal industry standpoint is not by any means confined con-fined to this particular phase. When Utah County was slowly shaped by ot.. Tcator, could we have stood by and seen the transformation we would have seen take shape, under His wise hand one of the greatest centers in our country for the production of milk and cream and cheese and butter but-ter "Utah .county, as a county, could make herself worth while, nay, make bcrfself the loading agricultural county coun-ty in our state, on; her dairying alone. She need seek no other field to achieve greatness and fame. Geo- i graphically at is ty on our herds of ' pure-bred Jerseys and Holstcins, ( these two breeds 'having become su- ' pneme in our midst. We have watched these magnificent milking machines slowly displace from our stables, the big boned shorthorn ' grade, so impossible for our beautiful little county not to be a dairying center. cen-ter. With her thousands of acres of low-lying pasture land, land that runs down from all sides from the peach land above, farther down to the applies, ap-plies, then lower still to the pasture and the countless acres of grazing land meeting on all sides into the lake, there is formed one of the most ideal -pictures it is possible to con-jure con-jure up. , Our herds of dairy stock arc excelled ex-celled by few in the state. Our dairy-men dairy-men arc modern energetic men and arc growing more so da.ily. We take off our hats to no county, popular a few years ago. We have w-atched them come in and have given word? of praise in our agricultural press and J loathe men who brought them in. Our t cr.camcric9 and condensarics arc now fed by the deer-like Jersey or the powerful black and white milker, the Hpjstcin. ''Our dairies arc clean and sanitary , ones. We sec cleanliness and regard ' for' sanitary conditions sticking out on every hand in any of our leading ' milking concerns. Recently, some- where in the middle west, a dairyman advertised his business by serving a banquet in the stable where his milk wa's drawn. Utah County has dairy- J men by the armful whe have stables dean enough to eat and dVink in. With the man from the middle west, our slogan in dairying is "clcanli- . ncss." We hold that the place where milk is produced should be clean 1 enough for its consumption. Visit us, 1 Be shown. On our country's agri- 1 cultural greatness depends largely its bid for a future. We hold that we 1 stand among the leading communi- J ties of the United States agricultural ly. We can't keep ourselves from achieving greatness. Horse raising, dairying, fruit raising, sheep andl beef production and poultry raising, are only a few of the phases of Utah County's bid for pre-eminence. We have done much: we can do much more with your help. Agricultural Utah County holds out her arms to workers, men who are willing to come to her and make her great by industry indus-try and make themselves great in the process. We want the home-bi 1der. We have no place for the man who ' ' mvw wppifiin w-i is with us only for what of this world's good he can get from it. Wc want the man to t-ake the small farm and farm it right; the man who comes and brings his family, who will make, his hosmc With us and help us lift. We want the booster who, whej W wpiMi.! l-vrr -- bbj he gets here, srenks of Utah County H as "Our County." The blessed Mark H Twain once nearly said what we want H to say on this particular subject, "Nc H Irish need apply." Mutilated to get H local color, let us' say, "No others flU need apply." IH |