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Show f : ? ,S W i ' i V 'i ! , Desire For Improvement ... i i i I s '' ' sVv,f'A AN. .. 'Tf" ''? v AflS x Evident In The Valley When one looks at the Cache Valley of today and reflects on the changes that have been made during the past ninety years, he is impressed with many things. But perhaps no one thing makes so great an impression as the visible proof of a strong and impelling desire on the part of the Valley's citizens for improvement, for quality, for developing products. the finest possible Th's desire has expressed itself in many fields, but nowhere more strikingly perhaps than in the Valley's agriculture and dairying. The building of fine herds and superior strains of cattle has been carried to such a high point of excellence that Cache County is recognized over a wide area as a leader in this resepct. In our day the dairy industry provides one half of the county's income from gross agriculture. Progress in any field is desirable and laudable, but especially when it is achieved effort and toward an end through joint 'which means a more stable and diversified economy for an entire area. This has been the case with the dairy industry in Cache Valley. The names of many farmers, farm leaders, and dairy specialists would have to be mentioned if credit were to be given to all who have helped in building this important part of the Valleys economy. More than one progressive-mindefarmer has developed fine herds of purebred cattle such as the one pictured on this page. Pride in such achievement is completely justified, and for those who appreciate beauty and perfection in whatever form it may occur, such a herd is as beautiful as the green meadows in which the Valley abounds, as beautiful as the stately mountains in which the Valley is enclosed. d The same desire for betterment and pride in achievement which has led to a finer dairy and agricultural product steadily will insure further progress in the future. Because these are impulses which allow no rest nor satisfaction with things as 'hey are. he pioneers built homes, schools and churches. They labored mightily to build canals. The beginnings of their agriculture were small. But they built their agricultural economy on a firm oundation, and their descendents have taken the same pride '? lrT1Provement of their agriculture as they have in bettering fheir "ornes' and their churches. Because all of schools, thr'r he together make a whole life, one cannot be divorced from other. This aes appreciation for both the 's well expressed in the poem e'c He "practical" and the by Lorin F. Butlere: watched the moist earth crumble in the furrow As he held the pi ow He saw the dull, earthworm burrow And watching wondered how If spent its darkened days. Lifting his eyes He saw five seagulls swing And fade like sunbeams in the velvet skies. He heard the whispering distant, silken wings and understood. He put his team away And found 'a pathway leading to a wood But plowed no more that day. slow-movi- Road winding . . . water itill . . . town in , mountains stalwart . . . clouds distance . . floating lazily of 7 j j3 ' .rvv '..'iiS4 Vs Farm Progress Is V 'V . 4?V k this it an unusual view theHyrum Dam, South Cache Valley. S r |