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Show USU Experimental Farm I Helps Farmers Progress The Utah State University Experiment Farm is located three miles North of Panguitch and is operated by William Junior Nay and his family. At the present time he is raising Simmental cattle and calves. These calves will be taken from Panguitch to Logan at weaning time and from there to New Mexico State University for feed tests. At the NMSU the Simmental calves along with other breeds of calves will be feed a prescribed amount of feed with records kept on all the calves to compare the growth rate of each of the breeds. From here they will be taken to Arizona State University where they will be slaughtered and the carcass test run on them. Purpose of the experiment is to compare each breed of cattle and each cross to see which will produce the higher cuts of meat. After killing the calves, the meat will be sold to the cafeterias at the various college campuses. Also at the USU Experiment Farm in Panguitch Mr. Nay has experimented on the various brands of alfalfa and pasture seeds to determine the high yield content for this area. He discovered the pastures grow best when they have grass, intermediate wheat and smooth broom three-way mix. This mix yield higher tons per acre than any pastures irrigated in this high altitude, Mr. Nay said. After experimenting on fertilizers, he discovered that ISO pounds of nitrogen per acre should be placed on the pastures. This could cause the grass to burn because nitrogen creates heat, but by properly watering the pasture it wiU more than pay for itself, he said. On the alfalfa ground 200 pounds of phosphate per acre should be put on every third year. Phosphate will stay In the ground and if we do not have any moisture this year it will be there next year. The only way to use phosphate is through irrigation which puts it into the roots of the plants. The reason it has to be replenished every third year is because it works : its way down eventually getting ;! in the ground too far to be able to help the roots. Remember use phosphate for alfalfa and nitrogen for grass. The reason nitrogen only lasts one year is because grass roots are not very deep. "Our main concern at the experiment farm is to discover ways that will help the people," Mr. Nay said. He added one word of caution. "Just because you see something done at the farm it does not mean it is the best thing to do, remember we are trying a variety of different tests to determine which is the best for the area." He added he would be happy to talk to anyone about the results of I these tests. |