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Show F S A Workers Tour College Dairy Experiment Farm; See Movie The facilities and practices needed to produce grade "A" milk on small Utah farms was outlined in a two-day tour by county farm and home supervisors in the nor-: nor-: thern Utah Farm Security Admin-; Admin-; titration district which concluded Thursday in Logan. The meetings, under direction of j WilUs R. Dunkley, northern dist-I dist-I rict supervisor, was attended by i supervisors from Uintah, Duchesne, ! Utah, Salt Lake, Weber, Davis, Box Elder, Cache, Rich, Summit, and Wasatch counties. The program was divided into three major phases, dairy farmstead farm-stead improvement and building of dairy bams; planned pasture development de-velopment and improvement and feed supplements; end care of dairy animals and handling of milk products. In addition to outlining the sug. gestions for producing grade ''A" milk, the supervisors heard an explanation of F S A's lending program, which is designed to help these farmers secure the equipment' ?nd buildings, where they are necessary in the rehabilitation of the family. Loans to veterans for complete farm and dairy units are available in every county in Utah through F S A under provisions of the B-nkhead-Jones act, Mr. Dunkley explained. l Wednesday the group visited five dairy setups in Box Elder county, including one which was planned by the Utah State Agricultural college. Officials pointed out examples ex-amples of good and poor arrangement arrange-ment and the F S A supervisors were given comprehensive outlines of construction ideas that will, if followed out, result in much cleaner clean-er milk production througout the state. Dr. Wesley Keller, U. S. department depart-ment of agriculture, bureau of plant industry collaborator with the Utah experiment station, described des-cribed the dryland grass species which have been developed to meet the state's needs for dairy pasture feed at the Mendon experimental exper-imental farm-Staff farm-Staff members of the U S A C dairy department, at the first session ses-sion Thursday, told the group it was necessary that dairymen should swing to new-type shelter sheds for dairy cattle, and provide hard surfaced corrals. ! George Q. Bateman, experiment station staff member, explainec! planned pasture dfvelopment throueh fertilization management, rotation erazintr, supplementary feed, c-nd amount of irrain necessary neces-sary to supplement pastures. The' ! inspected experiment station plots- ; (Cont. on Page 8. Col. 2) F S A WORKERS TOUR COLLEGE DAIRY (Continued from cage One) and heard discussions by eight members of the college staff. Climax of the tour was presen. tation of a moving picture,. "Science "Sci-ence of Milk Production", and a demonstration at the experiment station farm on fpoHino- miin and handling of milk products, and care of dairy animals. Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of U S A C, and Dr. R. H. Walker, dean of the school of agriculture, ag-riculture, both voiced a hope that future cooperation among agricultural agricul-tural agencies will provide a better agricultural life in the state. Dr. Harris especially urged a coordinated program between agricultural agri-cultural agencies operating in the field and the experimental agencies agen-cies to disemminate information about better farming practices to the "family type" farmer in Utah. |