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Show Dairymen To Learn Improved Efficiency Techniques Dairymen in Iron County will welcome the 1954 visit of the Union Pacific Agricultural Improvement Im-provement Car in Cedar City on Tuesday, Feb. 9 and Beryl Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Feb. 10. The theme of this year's car is "Increasing Efficiency Ef-ficiency in Dairy Production." Lloyd Hunsaker, extension dairyman from the Utah State Agricultural College Extension Service, will be on hand at the Iron County stops to discuss im-i portant phases of dairying. Wesley Wes-ley D. Soulier, U P agricultural agent in charge of the car, will also be present at the local meetings. meet-ings. Throe sessions are scheduled for the Cedar City stop for vocational voca-tional agriculture students, at 9, 10 and 11 a. m. The voc-ag students will meet at 10 a. m. in Beryl. A meeting at 1 p. m. at both towns will be open to all interested persons. Management short-cuts in dairy feeding, housing and equipment, equip-ment, santitation and disease control, records and many other topics will be discussed during the Cedar and Beryl meetings. Mr. Hunsaker, who has clone much work in improving housing of Utah dairy herds, will describe de-scribe such devices as open sheds, hard-surfaced corrals and milking parlors which are part of the present trend toward saving sav-ing time and labor. Improved management methods meth-ods will not only increase dairy production but will control or eliminate such diseases as mastitis, mas-titis, according to the dairy expert. ex-pert. Changed milking and managing man-aging practices would boost each cow's production more than any other type of improvement, he claims. The agricultural improvement car is sponsored cooperatively by the- U S A C Extension Service and the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Its tour of the Beehive state has become an annual affair, af-fair, with such subjects in past years as insect control, weed control and livestock. The group ?l fishermen stop-ed stop-ed in at a backwoods farmhouse to see if they could buy lunch. "Reckon so," said the farmer's wife, "Effen you like pork chops tha's all I got." The hungry men fell to with a will and ate up the pork chops. Afterwards they complimented the hostess on the quality of the meat. "Well, I should hope so," she replied. "That's none of your butchered meat. That hog died a natural death." |