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Show V milk production IoTT""" on and bmldmg are the w ' .. most intensive type , 5 Caine Advises Farmers to Keep the Cows Don't sell your cows, George D. Caine, dairyman for the Utah State Agricultural college Extension Exten-sion service advised Utah dairymen dairy-men this week as farmers contin-j contin-j ued to shop cows to the butcher and out of the state. - "This shipping and selling of cows is a very serious situation and if continued is bound to permanently per-manently affect our food production produc-tion effort, "Dairyman Came explained. ex-plained. "It takes two years from the time the heifer is born to produce pro-duce a quart of milk. There are no shortcuts to this production and when the cows are destroyed the replacement is very slow and uncertain. It must be admitted that the price paid for daily cows is high both for meat and as milkers, milk-ers, but in contrast to that the price of butter fat is also high and figures indicate that the price will stay up high for some time." The dairyman reminded farmers of the immediate need for a recorded re-corded milk production not only for lend-lease shipments but for domestic consumption as well. Statistics show that during these war months Utahns are consuming consum-ing from 10 to 17 percent more milk than during normal months. August, September and October are always periods of low production produc-tion of milk around the market milk areas. This year the supply is much shorter than normal, however, The influx of workers into the state has helped to create cre-ate the shortage. "Good dairy cows with their |