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Show Stabilized Farming and Livestock Industries Urged At Association Meeting Livestock men and farmers of Cedar City and surrounding territory terri-tory were urged at the mid winter meeting of the Cedar Livestock Association As-sociation Thursday to stabilize the farming and livestock industries through the adoption of a long range farming program and through better marketing practices. , Business sessions were held throughout the day, followed by the Livestock Association annual banquet ban-quet and dance held at the Escal-ante Escal-ante hotel In the evening. The opening session was a Joint meeting of the local Farm Bureau chapter and the Livestock Association, Associa-tion, with Lyman Sevy, Farm Bureau Bur-eau president, and Carlos Jones, livestock association president, in charge. A statement of policy by Secy, oi Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson on his proposal for a long range program for agriculture was explained ex-plained to the group by Karl J. Magleby, state director farm home administration; John H. Schenk Lcgan, vice president farm bureau federation and director of the American Am-erican Farm bureau; Frank K. Nelson, Utah county committeeman for the production and marketing administration and Wilford Bailey, State director, Federal Crop Insurance Insur-ance Corp. ' During the afternoon session a number of government officials discussed dis-cussed various phases of the industry. indus-try. Albert Albertson, supervisor of the Dixie National Forest," urg;d more attention to conservation practices prac-tices and land use adjustments as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating perpet-uating range resources. Discussions of the results of range management experiments being conducted con-ducted at the Branch Agricultural college and the Utah state experiment experi-ment station, was led by Dr. T. Donald Bell, professor of animal husbandry at the B. A. C. who Is in charge of the program. Among officials of the experiment experi-ment station and the college n Logan who were here for Thursday's Thurs-day's sessions were Dr. Lewis M. Turner, dean of the school of forestry for-estry and range management; Dr. L. A. Stoddard, professor of range management staff; Dr. D. A. Bur-goyne, Bur-goyne, acting director of the ex periment station, and Dr. Louis L. Madsen, head of the animal husbandry hus-bandry department at Logan and Cedar City. Progress of the association's predatory pre-datory animal control program was reported by Heber M. Sevy, chairman chair-man of the committee in charge. He reported that nearly 25,000 baits have been dropped from airplanes onto the hugh summer ranges and the early spring lambing grounds during the past two weeks. An indication of the effect of intensive control work was given by Vernal A. Bergeson, state commissioner com-missioner of agriculture, who "reported "re-ported that the state paid bounty on only 12,000 coyotes last year, compared to nearly 20,000 In 1946. Mr. Bergeson also outlined precautions precau-tions being taken against spread of hoof and mouth disease in the country from Mexico Mid urged great care in its prevention on the part of growers. |