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Show 1 uu FARM AGENT PREDICTS MILK FAMINE IN WEBER COUNT! Unless drastic action Is taken, a milk famine in Weber county in the near future, is the prediction of W. Preston Thomas, Weber county farm agent. Steps must be taken at once to increase tho number of dairy cows, he stated, that there are at present only on-ly half the number in the county that there was last year at this time. "A shorage of dairy cows will also result in a shortage of agricultural products," pro-ducts," he declared, " in lhat the supply sup-ply of fertilizer will be reduced. With farmers all trying to plaijt larger crops the situation is becoming acute "The shortage of cattle is due" to the fact that during the early spring when ' hay was practically unobtainable If- many of the farmers were forced to sell their dairy cows to keep them from starving. Most of them were sold r for beef. This accounts for the high price of butter fat, this bringing moro R' than -10 cents a pound, dairymen -sa;--. K It is bound to result in a scarcity of BE How to overcome the situation will nfl be the subject to be considered by the WM directors of the Weber County Farm H bureau when they meet tomorrow. It fl is thought tho local banks will back B the proposal of the bureau to import B fine dairy .stock by lending financial aid. If they do not favor the plan. mm tho directors will recommend accept- flB ance of an offer mado by a local con- cern to buy the cattle outright and H turn them over to the farmers, to be IH paid for in installments. |