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Show Pose 8 sae SS “Old Slab-Sides”” Dairy Cow Seis Top Texas Lenghern Ambles Along the Comeback Trail Plons Set meacey-bred English catile Langhorn 2 success: toughness. being 2 In thetwo dazen vears after the ve American cow, the Geographic § National soap Unae way 0 the Someone once wrote, “The ‘Texas Longhorn. was not bred by Fast. They heiped save the surviver of his own war-weary Soutiwest from range-to-market price gap, man, but was shaped by nature poverty, and almost became champion of the comeback trail. te benefit man.” views of the prospei E brought the first cattle — critter that now cowpun her ever to Spanishfighting bulls — ome helped create. CowPlus Oslf: $18 New Worldin 1493. of asa her In early Texas $10 bought a In 2859 about 260 cattle were in fact, on the old Chrisholm cow and a half. After the war Trail. they thought of the herded north of the border from New Spain in the first cattle whey could not be sold on their Longhom like this “He was jong end lean, drive into what was te become ownrange for even a doilar. But by another 20 years when the uinwned for travel and not Texas, Nature left its mark through cattle drives were iifting dust tailored for tallow. He wasfitted to fight, not fatten. He was the years. When the Civil War Clouds aver 8%@-mile trails, they tough-mouthed and ended, the Longhorns were the were bringing $25 a head ‘Then railroads stretchedto the razor-homed. He had shoulders only beefcattle tough enough to rangeland. Trail drives were no like a buffalo, legs like a race withstand the lung trail 4 innger needed — along with the horse, and a backbone thatcould railroad terminals, Efficiently, they could go for only cattle that could survive split a hailstone He could live jonger on less than any other incredibie distances without them. Longhorns seemed headed for water and could rustle up breed of cattie.” anything 10 eat along the the last roundup until the 1926's Native American Cow That's what made ihe hardserabble trail, which would when a smai! save - from have proved a deadly desert to extinction herd wasstarted Muiation Results in Apple Split gained a tot of bushel in 1973 dropped io $6.58 in 1974, Utah farmers’ interest in xtowug ihe soybeans also Area Bulis cero A rise in Utah County during the pee 3 card iigh bushe! also altracted a ist of October to grade bulis tocal growerinterest and desires in priceof wheat com and alfalfa made ch more aunpeiitive fe us Livestockmen who wisi have their bulls graded sho 718. 100 E., Provo, andhe « reached at 377-2797 BRATTLEBORO, “i. Ter varietaitrials directed by DeVere R. McAlli Utah Sate Un agronomy crops specialist indicate the soybeans can be growinsuce sfullyin some parts of Utah But hecause they require additional cosliy inputs of labor. irrigation water, and — A registered Holstein cow owned by Camation Mile Ears, Costly to Produce Bui More To Grade Abull-grading teamwill be in Production Soybeans Successful in Utah Carnation, has compieted Have phosphsrous available iathe soil equal to or exceeding thai required fur core 6. Control weeds with machinery or chemicals being carelutte follow directions an the labels if chemicals are used Dr. Medllister suggests the 7. Plamt 45 to $0 pounsis of seed following recommended peracre in 30 inch rows dropping Practices fu: growers to use one seed every I> to 2 inches when price 5 are &. Plant in moist soil but never more than two inches deep i. Piant high quality 9. Control insects. particularly ipreferably certified seed of leopers. army worm d varieties that have .been demonstrated te mature under Utah growingconditions. gested pointers 2 lise the hest irrigated soils when harvesting production recerd conta %AN8 ths. of mitk according to ike Hoisteia Frresian Association of America. Fuch-Herd ideai Laura s7eaze5 (EXE) actually produced a total of 30.990 ths. of milk, 2 Ibs. = butterfat and 2.715 ths of Grant § Richards, ae Fork. Her product than three limes that of the &verage dairy cow Her record started atthe age of 30 years eight months. On a two times per day milking schedule, she averaged wore than 33 quarts of milk each day throughout her testing period To be graded. a bull must be at ie Classified “Excellent - 3E” in Additional information ia body conformation, Laura has Jeast i8 months oldand be tied er unless they can receive a price hom-branded so the ear tattoo bout three times as high hatat proper soybean inoculum just eel soybeanssuccessfully in maintained this oxeciient ‘an get for corn or wheat. (tak may be obtained from the can be checked. Registration before planting classification, scoring 90 points papers musi aisu be availa! n't apply nitrogen since or more on three different that when the record oo it's not needea Hf the seed 1s checking, itis reported, ence Depa occasions as she grew older. soybean prices of $1250 per properly inoculated. Utah State University. ment most farmers are not \ 0%OFFJCPenney) our entire An unusual mutation turned,ta in a Prove backyard th when a Pelicions apple ma discovered with a split beeiSateSoeihh esBeaks ew eb line of cosa uniforms personality. The appie apparently couldn’t including smocks. decide whether it was suppose to be a red or a golden delicious apple. Not only was it compieiely yeilow on one ‘half and red onthe ciher, but even the siem was yellow on aneside and redon the other. Stan Patten, who has spent many years as @ fruitgrower, said he has often seen mutations where a quarter of a fruit has the characteristics of another ae but he never seen viding tivi twovarieties into equal = halveson the same stem. Mr a who lives ai 720 E. icular mutation type is mera and it comes may or maynot happen again at the same spot onthe tree. SPLIT PERSONALITY in thisis DeliciousTae ie a y Stan Patten, Prove fruitgrower. 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