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Show Cache Dairy Production Reported Outstanding Herd Tests Show High Average Cache county's reputation as a dairy production center was enhanced Wednesday by a report re-port from Lloyd R. Hunsaker, county agricultural agent, that 2603 cows on dairy herd improvement im-provement tests during the past year produced an average of 350 pounds of butterfat. With 271 herds, or about 20 per cent of the county's cows on test, the total butterfat producion for 2603 cows-years was 911,623 pounds. The record is not the highest in the county's history, Mr. Hunsaker said, it represents a "splendid achievement by county coun-ty dairymen that probably could be duplicated by few counties in. the nation." The average butterfat production of all dairy cows in ' Utah is about 210 pounds. While selected herds often exceed the 350 pound average, av-erage, the figure is outstanding for a county-wide average of all cows on test, he explained. Dairy productions produced by tested cows were worth a total of $503,378, Mr. Hunsaker said, or an average of $193 per cow. Feed costs totaled $231,738 or 039 per cow, so the value of products over feed costs was $271,603 or $104 per cow. Of the 271 herds tested, 253 were fed grain. Leading the county's dairy herd improvement associations was the Cache Central association, associa-tion, whose 50 herds produced an average of 374 pounds of butterfat but-terfat per cow. Mr. Hunsaker's report also showed that the five cooperative Dull associations 'in me county had 142 members during the year and owned 14 bulls for 1170 cows. |