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Show Local Men Make Tour of Farms California The 1952 Agricultural Tour, sponsored spon-sored by the Commercial Bank of Utah, began early Sunday with 111 men registered for the trip. From Millard county area were James W. Stephenson, Otis Walch, Herman Munster, Hompr Petersen, W. R. Walker, Orvil Jeffery, Elbert Stevens, Otto Hunter, Burke Matthews, Mat-thews, Evan Anderson, James C. Rowley, Orin C. Cummings, Edwin Stevens, Boyd Sorenson, Clifford Stewart, W. T. Stevens, Orson Chris tensen, Cleone B. Stott and Evan Johnson. One of the highlights of the trip will be the visit to the Davis Campus Cam-pus of the University of California. Last week the exhibits at the University Un-iversity drew a crowd of 1,000 stockmen from California. The San Joaquin County Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce and the Farm Bureau organization at Stockton, Cal., arranged a dinner for the men on tour, held in the Hotel Stockton Monday night. Another feature of the tour is the visit to Kern County Land Company, near Bakersfield, which is the largest livestock operation in the United States. They run from 70,000 to 80,000 head of cattle. cat-tle. In the A. H. Karpee Ranch, the group will be able to see Baca Prince Domino 20th, a Hereford bull which recently sold for $87,500. At Los Angeles the group will visit commercial feed lots in which there are over 50,000 head of cattle, on feed. The last scheduled visit will be the LDS Security Farm, near Riverside, River-side, Cal. |