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Show Cache Dairy Herd Improvement Associations Elect Officers Officers were elected and certi-I certi-I ficates presented for outstanding production at three annual meetings meet-ings of Cache county dairy herd improvement associations held last week, Lloyd Hunsaker, county egent reports. Vernon Perkes of Kyde Park, was reelected president of the Cache Central association at the annual meeting in Smithfield. Also Al-so reelected were Roy Thain of Benson, vice president; Bart Richardson of Smithfield, secretary-treasurer; Fred Duce of Hyde Perk, Wayman Hillyard and A. D. Weeks of Smithfield, as board members. Roy Thain of Benson received a gold seal certificate for having a herd average of more than 500 pounds of butterfat per cow. Philip Bergeson of Lewiston was elected president of the Lewiston-Cornish Lewiston-Cornish association at their annual an-nual meeting. He replaces G. J. Baker of Cornish. Other officers are Mr. Baker and T. R. Holt of Lewiston, executive board members; mem-bers; H. M. Spackman of Lewiston, vice president and David O. Hendricks Hen-dricks of Lewiston, secretary treasurer. treas-urer. Lawrence B. Came was reelected president of the Richmond-Cove association. Other officers are Douglas Hendricks, vice president and William Harris, secretary. Board members are Henry Cornish Corn-ish and George Anderson. Reporting on the year's opera- : tions, Mr. Came said the 582 cows ; in the association's 5fi herds aver-I aver-I aged 332 pourmds of butterfat for ; the year ending February 1943. ! Breeding troubles resulted in low production in some herds, he said, but it was reported that these problems had been solved and a i higher level of production is expected ex-pected for the coming year. Lyman Rich, extension dairyman, dairy-man, discussed returns from pas-i pas-i tures at the meetings. He showed pictures of pastures of dairymen in the state that brought returns of more than $110 per acre when utilized as dairy cattle feed. County Agent Lloyd R. Hunsaker Hun-saker pointed out the increased returns resulting from dairy herd improvement work and declared that 260,000 additional pounds of butterfat produced by cows in Cache county testing association brought $182,000 additional income to these members. Certificates of honor for herds producing more than 350 pounds of butterfat, per cow, were presented pre-sented to the following dairymen. Cache central A. W. Chambers, Arthur Peterson, Wesley Johnson, Albert Beck, A. D. Weeks. Calvin Weeks, Hazen Hillyard, Jesse Beutler, Carl Beutler, Grant Tool-son, Tool-son, A. L. Seamons, Earl and Dewey Allsop, Ariel Waite, James R. Thain, M. P. Thain, C. L. Ash-croft, Ash-croft, Deuard Balls, Fred Duce, Allen Al-len McQuarrie, David Hurren, Vernon Ver-non Perkes, Seth Chambers, Nathan Na-than Mather, W. C. Claypool, Roy Erickson, Wayman Hillyard, Sam I Hymas, Lowell Plowman, Plowman Bros., J. A. Gittens, Ross Gordon, Leo Woodruff, Wilford Woodruff, O. C. Woodruff, and Bart Richardson. shoe stamps becomes necessary. Do you want to save the nation na-tion and yourself a king's ransom by staving off inflation? Then enlist as a volunteer worker with your local war price and rationing ration-ing board. Don't let someone else carry your load. Be a good sportsman and help carry on this work, which will shorten the war. You don't need a special invitation. invita-tion. This is it. Telephone your local board and ask for orders. OPA has found it necessary to ration imported sugar syrup and sugar-crystal, sometimes called rock-candy, which comes mainly from Cuba. So much of the raw sugar was being converted into . these processed forms that the practice threatened to dislocate sugar rationing in ' the United States. Accordingly, OPA took over' the rationing of sugar syrup and' sugar crystal to prevent large industrial users from evading rationing. ra-tioning. For that reason, hold on to Sugar Stamp Forty until you need sugar for canning. |