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Show COWS ARE STILL BEING MILKED There has been talk about Logan of farmers selling their milch cows for beef and then moving into the defense areas to work where the wages paid are more inviting than those realized at home. This accusation is not so, according to Lawrence Caine of Richmond. He stated, at a committee meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday afternoon, that only two or three dairymen have disposed of their herd and in each case the cows were purchased by other dairymen in the state and have been kept in production. - Most of the cows sold were taken. to Ogden, Clearfield or Brigham to help increase the milk supply so badly needed there. One of the herds sold belonged to an elderly gentleman gen-tleman whose son had been called into the armed forces of the nation, leaving the father without help. Another herd consisted of old cows which in the natural na-tural management of the herd would be out of usefulness use-fulness in another year or so, but which has now been replaced by the farmer with an even larger herd of younger stock. There have been many cows sent out of the valley, Mr. Caine stated, but that transfer takes place every year. It is unwise for a dairyman to keep animals that do not produce somewhere around the average yield per year so there is a continual process of elimination of such animals, many of which go. to the beef market, Without this process of elimination the dairymen cannot can-not hope to bring their herd up to the ideals set by cow testing associations. Much effort is being put to the standards of better breeding, proper feeding, disease dis-ease control and cooperative marketing which is most vital in reaching the goal of production this yearj which in Cache county is set at an increase of 12,000 pounds of milk per day. . . ' Most farmers are patriotic to their., country and are going to work unceasingly for greater ; production. No doubt they have their problems but with the' help of the , schools, business men and other agencies working for an increase in farm labor the goals will be met this year. |