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Show Dairy Tom Shows Resulte of Actual Practice , . , . ! In spite of the extremely busy time for the farmers, thirty seven progressive Beaver Valley Dairymen joined Prof. George B. Caine of the U. S. A. C. and R. C. Jones, Dairy specialist from the U. S. D. A., in a short dairy tour and meeting in Reaver 'Monday(, August 15th. The purpose of the tour was to show from actual practice the results of different phases of the dairy project. The first stop was made at the farm of Carlyle Smith where the group saw the results of the use of a good sire. The mature cows of the herd produced an average of 384 pounds of butterfat in 300 days. In the four dam-daughter comparisons the dams averaged 301 pounds of fat while the daughters produced an average av-erage of 517 pounds of fat, mature j equivalent, or an average increase of 1 156 pounds of fat more for each 1 daughter than her dam. This is an1 unusual increase .especially where j the dams are cows with double the I average production of the cows of: our state. It was an association bull, and had been used in three of the four blacks of the association for a total of 8 years. If this bull has only 50 daughters, and they average the j same as these it would mean an extra j K000 pounds of fat each year for the j life of the cows, or many thousands! of dollars increased earnings of thP : daughters over their dams. "What is a good dairy sire worth?" ! The next stop was at the Kent j Morgan place where it was shown ' ; that good production for the cows j '. could be had by practically everyone ; in the county with small outlay. Mr. Morgan's shed which is 16 ft. wide, I and approximately GO ft. long, to- gether with stanchions in his milking barn cost him an actual cash outlay of $29.00. Remember, you pay for protection whether you have it or not. At the Shepherd Ranch the group looked over the herd where they again saw the value of good sires. At this point a meeting was held on the grass in the shade of the trees. Professor Caine discussed feeding of ! dairy cattle in which he brought out j that: 1. A mixture of equal parts of bran, oats and barley by weight to , supplement our hay was a most economical econ-omical ration; 2. our pastures are the ! cheapest source of feed if they are j properly supplemented, rotated, and irrigated and fertilized; 3. silage is I a method of heavy production of feed; feed according to production of the individual cow. In his talk Mr. Jones showed that . at least 10 per cent of the dairy cows should be culled out on a production basis. Statistics show us that one-third one-third of ail dairy cows make a profit, one-third break even, and one-third do not pay cost of production. Regardless Re-gardless of what a cow brings for beef, why should sh be taken into the winter again if she is a boarder? General discussion and round-table talk took place until noon at which time Mr. Powell served a much appreciated ap-preciated light dairy lunch to everyone. every-one. The final windup of the tour was at the Frank Low pasture where the group reviewed that outstanding herd. Our visitors left immediately for Piute County where they were to judge a dairy show and hold another meeting in the afternoon, and night meeting in Richfield. |