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Show A VISIT TO THE IVINS' RANCH Splendidly Stocked Ranch That ia a Big Boost for tho Southern Portion of the State. Tho editor of Tho Record had tho pleasure this week of paying u visit to the Ivins farm, about two miles north of Enterprise, and just over tho lino in Washington county, which is principally owned by Anthony W. Ivins and his son Antono, who is in chnrgo of tho ranch. The farm comprises about 1,000 acres of tho choice land of the Enterprise Enter-prise valley, and produces an immense im-mense amount of alfalfa hay, grain, and pasturago, which is utilized in feeding the blooded animals with which tho farm is stocked. Tho fann has largo commodious barn, a hand-somo hand-somo nnd convenient bungalow for the proprietors, modern granaries, yards house accommodations for the hands. At tho presont time, about 75 head of blooded cattle, fifty head of choice bred horses, a pen of registered Berkshire Berk-shire hogs, and a flock of puro bred poultry are being cared for. Tho horses include somo of tho "hoiccst and most valuable strains of Kentucky saddlers, thoroughbreds, Percheron, and a number of first prizo winners are included in the collection. The beautiful gray Percheron stallion, imported from Franco just prior to tho breaking out of the war, is certainly cer-tainly a beauty, and weighs close to a ton. Tho principal part of tho cattle nro Herefords, of which there are a num-bor num-bor of exceptionally fino specimens; the entiro herd presents a remarkably uniform appearance. Included in the collection are somo eight or ten full-blood full-blood yearling bulls, which aro for sale. In dairy cattlo there aro seven milking milk-ing pure-bred Jerseys, and two splendid splen-did Jeyscy bulls, ono of which is for laic at a reasonable figure. Among the cows and heifers are some choico show stuff, that will compare favorably favorab-ly with anything in the state. Tho Ivins farm stands as an advertisement ad-vertisement for all southern Utah, and is a demonstration to local people of what may be accomplished by the employment em-ployment of scientific methods and judgment in the use of farm products, pro-ducts, and the stocking of the farm. While every farmer cannot go into tho business at once on the scale that these people havo done, nevertheless they can work towards a better class of animals, and with fewer of them to care for can realize more profit nnd with much less feed than from the common kinds. |