| Show U P ag train to be here next tuesday the union pacific agricultural improvement car I 1 will make its annual debut in morgan county on oil feb feba 5 meetings will be held it at morgan aboard the car the first meeting will be from 10 am to 12 noon the other meetings on the same lay day will be from 2 to 1 I pm and from to pm this years theme will center j aroura livestock special special emphasis will be on oil livestock loss prevention ve ven tion and feeding livestock says wesley D soulier So uller UP agri I 1 cultural agent in charge of the car livestock specialists traveling with the newly improved car will be professors morris taylor talor leon russell keetch george henderson all from the utah state agricultural college extension service county agent ray thatcher will be present to help direct activities tivi ties aboard the car as it travels thru thra utah will be shown two color and sound motion pictures entitled cattle country and western sheep A miniature cattle yard will bo be exhibited and livestock specialists will give short lectures and answer questions said mr bouller So uller we are using the livestock theme this year because it is one of most important industries cash receipts from crops in 1950 totaled while cash receipts from livestock equaled during the same year Live livestock receipts were nearly three gimesi times more the USDA bureau of a f estimates that last year the loss from froin dead crippled and bruised livestock in the U S was valued at 50 million that would be enough meat to feed the entire population of etith for one year some of the causes that will be discussed at the train stops will be overfeeding over feeding of lives livestock t ock b before e foi loading and shipping overexertion over exertion during driving or sorting and overcrowding in cars and trucks these are a few of the major causes of livestock losses and bruises the extension service and union pacific railroad are boiking cooperatively in sending the car through utah union pacific is one of the largest livestock carrying railroads in it the horld orld handling nearly cars care of livestock every year |
