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Show Defense Action Asked By County Agent Kearf Government Wants 5 Milk Increase As Goal For 1942 Voicing a. government request to farmers for a five per cent increase in-crease in the milk production of the coming year over that of 1941 County Agent Chase Kearl makes the following release to farmers: ''An adequate food supply foi our own nation, with a substantial substan-tial surplus of certain foods needed need-ed by Great Britain and her .Allies, .Al-lies, is considered by national leaders lead-ers as absolutely essential to our national well-being and to a successful suc-cessful war against a return of the "Dark Ages" under Hitlerism. Surely no one can doubt the im portance of such supply. Farmers over the United States are definitely defi-nitely on a program that will result re-sult In an increase of milk, pork, eggs, and poultry and beef; products prod-ucts that can be so processed as to preserve them over long periods as well as to make shipping to foreign for-eign countries practical. There are two very good reasons why every single farmer engaged In dairying should resolve here and now that he will do his part in meeting this request; First, loyalty loyal-ty to a great nation that has ot fered and still ofrers so many op- portunities for individual enter-1 prise, growth, development, together to-gether with a kind and quality of freedom not -equaled or known by any other people; second, the price of butterfati is such that his financial finan-cial interests will be best served if he manaegs his herd in such a way as to increase the total pounds of butterfat per cow during the next year. The request of the government can be more than met in so far as Franklin county is concerned witlu out increasing the size of the herd. Although the index of feeds, both hay and grain, is higher than it has been in some of the past years, the price is actually lower wheu compared to the price of butter-fat. butter-fat. To get the increase that is de sired, herd owners should: 1. Supplement pasture with hay. 2. Feed grain more liberally. 3. See to it that the herd has plenty of salt and mineraals, particularly par-ticularly phosphate. 4. Improve the housing conditions condi-tions by minor repairs to the barns and sheds, such repairs are often inexpensive. 5. Be more regular in attention atten-tion to the herd. Remove cows that are known to be low producers and "shy breeders" breed-ers" and replace them with more desirable animals. 7. Arrange to have a one-hundred per cent calf crop during the coming year. 8. Keep barns clean, cows clean, milk and cream so that no part ofj the products will be rejected by processing plants. Many herds are permitted" to go off in production from the fact that they are given unlimited access ac-cess to certain feeds, this is particularly par-ticularly here of beet tops. Tops are a splendid supplemental feed and will stimulate production when fed in limited amounts, but actually actu-ally has the effect of lessening the production 'in hei'ds that ' feeiT -on them without limitation; also there actually is a tendency for a larger percentage of milk to become be-come contaminated when this byproduct by-product is fed excessively. Insofar as possible, tops should be piled and fed over longer periods, peri-ods, in any event, cows should be permitted to feed on them during part of the day only." |