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Show LIVESTOCK By DR. HUGH HURST Tooele County Agent. Beef Cattle The agricultural possibilities of the county are numerous and varied. They include cattle, both beef and dairy, sheep, both farm flocks and range, small grains, horses and potatoes. The beef cattle are rather numerous and are fair to good in quality, showing show-ing a predominance of Shorthorn and Hereford breeding. While we recognize recog-nize that there is room for much improvement im-provement that may be brought about through a more systematic culling and grading of stock, yet they are above the average cattle of the state in qual- Tooele county boasts of one of the best herds of Shorthorns of the state, even though they are comparatively few in number, photograph No. 1 shows Broadhooks Barron with a n-oup of his' get on the farm of R. A. Fenton of Erda. This noted sire has stood first in his class on various occasions, oc-casions, and has been awarded Grand Champion at the State Fair, 1924 and at North Salt Lake show in April, 1926. Photograph No. 2 shows a fine tvpe Shorthorn cow with calves of the breed that show typical variations in color that are characteristic of the breed. , Dairy Cattle While dairving in the county is still in its infancy yet there are numerous nu-merous fine individuals, both males and females, which represent the Hol- last season, and some good colts produced, pro-duced, though not as many as we would have liked. Mares of the type and quality shown in the following cut when mated to one of the remount stallions should produce horses that would please any saddle lover. Hogs. The hogs of the county are not "particularly "par-ticularly numerous, yet most of the better class of farmers produce, butcher butch-er and pickle enough first class hams and bacon to supply their home requirements. re-quirements. There is a sprinkling of the various breeds of lard type hogs owned in the various settlements of the county. This phase of agriculture will be stimulated stim-ulated because there is an abundance of good pasture, byproducts from the home manufacture of butter, and skim milk, and any quantity of grain, all of which are vital to the production of good pork. The people generally are seeing the necessity of carrying on a more nearly balanced type of agriculture and consequently are adding add-ing more and better animals and preparing pre-paring to take better care of them. Small Grains It has been recognized for many-years many-years that Tooele land was very fertile fer-tile and produced abundantly of the various crops, yet in 1925, she was thrown into the front rank for the production of the best wheat shown at the State Fair. The prize winning grain was produced by R. N. Bush on Clover creek, under the following cultivation. cul-tivation. Land plowed in summer and early fall and seeded with Turkey Red, forty-five pounds per acre, in |