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Show Utah Dairymen Increase DH1 Enroolment Dairymen cooperating In the Utah Dairy Herd Improvement program have increased their association membership until now 809 herd owners are having their cows tested each month, Lyman H. Rich, extension dairyman at the Utah State Agricultural college, coll-ege, reports. These 809 herds are composed of 8,4 55 cows in 13 dairy herd improvement associations through out the state. In 1936 only 178 herds were on test with 2,521 cows, in 1937 total herds were 279 and cows amounted to 3,670. This number rose to 341 herds and 4,453 cows in 1938 and at the end of 1939 reached 428 herds in which 5,010. cows were being tested. According to Mr. Rich these comparative figures are indicative indicat-ive of the manner in which dairy improvement is taking hold in Utah. Benefits of the program are shown through the results of the tests and the dairyman's ability to "weed out" the "boarders" "board-ers" and thereby improve the pro duction efficency of their herds. June 26 dairymen met at Canyon Can-yon Glen in Provo canyon to com memorate the tenth anniversary of the dairy herd improvement association in Utah and Wasatch counties. At this meeting four dairymen and the Utah State hospital wTere awarded certificates for having carried, on dairy herd improvement work for a full ten-year ten-year period. Counties in which dairy herd improvement associations are functioning are Box Elder, three in Cache, Davis, Piute, Salt Lake, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Utah, and two in Weber. OOO |