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Show Livestock Leaders Discuss Problems Confronting Industry More than one hundred livestock breeders were told Saturday that they must produce more and better livestock if Utah is to make any noticeable economic Improvement. The challenge was made by leaders In the Industry and experts from business, education ajid various United States government agencies at meetings held at the Branch Agricultural College in an effort to discover the needs of the livestock live-stock breeders and to explain the function of the B. A. C. and Utah State Agricultural College In their attempts to serve the livestock Industry In-dustry of the state. "We may not be able to noticeably notice-ably increase the number of our livestock - although I think we can, but we can Increase the quality quali-ty of them," said L. C. Montgomery, Montgom-ery, president of the Utah Livestock Live-stock Growers' Association, whose statement reflected the trend of all the other speeches given at the meetings. Two meetings were held during the day, the first opening at 10 a. m. and followed by a luncheon at the school. The second meeting convened con-vened at 2 p. m. Dr. James S. Prest-wlch, Prest-wlch, chairman of the B. A. C. committee of the USAC Board of Trustes, conducted both meetings. Following the afternoon meetln? the assemblage was taken on a tour of the B. A. C. farms and experimental exper-imental projects and to the feed lots and processing plants in the county. The tour was under the direction of Rolce Nelson, Iroa County livestock grower. In attempting to answer the challenge chal-lenge of how to produce more and better livestock, the various speakers speak-ers pointed to the need of culling, selecting, and feeding livestock; the need for Improving crops and soil, together with better management procedures; and the need of utilizing util-izing the extension experimental data available at the experiment station, and using the services of the extension experts. Professors Alma Esplln and Harry Har-ry Smith of the extension service, explained the need of culling and proper feeding of selected sheep, cattle and swine. "If you discover that your fleeces vary from seven to twelve pounds, you should cull those sheep which are producing less than eight or nine-pound fleeces and eliminate them as quickly as possible", said Professor Esplln. Professor Smith explained that small farmers were unable to feed one or two carloads of beef cattle, but that most farmers could profitably pro-fitably feed at least two or three cattle to prime condition. "A proper pro-per utilization of feed will not only save the products of the soil, but will turn these products Into a profit pro-fit which can be turned In no other way," he said. In making this statement, state-ment, he was in agreement with Fred Merrill, Utah director of the agricultural economic council who said that "most farmers waste enough feed to fatten at least one or two cattle every year." Charles Redd, livestock man and member of the USAC Board of Trustees, estimated that an Increase of two pounds of wool per ewe In five years was possible with careful care-ful selecting, breeding and feeding. President C. O. Adney of the Board of Trustees and a recent recipient of the Farm Bureau awaid for outstanding agricultural service, ser-vice, outlined the need of proper care of Utah soils. He quoted the findings of recent research that fifty tons of barnyard manure would , be required to bring the humus content of an acre of Utah land to a par with the land In the com belt. D. L. Sargent, professor and experiment ex-periment station specialist at the B. A. C, followed Mr. Adncy's lead by stating that farmers must discontinue dis-continue the mining of Utah soil. They must utilize recent experimental experi-mental knowledge on the planting and growing of crops and then feed these crops to animals, returning the fertilizer to the soil. B. H. Walker, director of the experiment ex-periment station and dean of the school of agriculture at the USAC, and Dr. Fred F. McKensle, recently appointed head of the animal husbandry hus-bandry department at the Logan school, who Is Internationally known for his research work and publications publica-tions on livestock problems, outlined out-lined the essential functions of the school as instruction, research and extension work. Courses of Instruction, Instruc-tion, they said, were based on findings find-ings made by the experiment station, sta-tion, and the extension service carries car-ries the experimental knowledge directly to the fanners, livestock raisers, and Into the home. "You must, therefore, outline specifically the problems you wish us to help you with. We want to know specifically what your problems pro-blems are; only then can we plan our program," said Dr. McKensle. "We lack adequate yardsticks to measure our successful growing of products and livestock. These yardsticks yard-sticks we must find. The result will be a profit In the producer's pocket." The day's activities wert brought to a dot with banquet that enlng at the Eacaknto Hotel under the sponsorship of the Cdwr City Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Utah Livestock Association. |