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Show I DEVELOPING THE DAIRY IN WEBER. When the Farm Bureau official? sought to increase the dairy resources of Weber county, they found that the farmers led them around in a circle. IThe farmer said he was wilhout sufficient suffi-cient hay to raise more cows, and that to produce more hay he must have more water. So the work now being done by the .Farm Bureau and government cngi-'.neers cngi-'.neers is not only the obtaining of , water and the draining of large areas, but if is the making possible of a great dairy region, with creameries, cheese 1 factories and condensed milk plants. With an enlarged acreage, the farm-icrs farm-icrs will be encouraged to plpc rn their farms milch cows of regi.; ten d i Mock and they will begin to follow dairy industry along the lines of scien-1 flific selection. The race horse is bred up until no 1 unustang can go with him in a test of ispeed. What the race track taught in, 'breeding has beon applied to dairying (until now the highest grade cows arc L ielding 125 pounds of milk a day The (scrub cow may not produce more than 20 pounds of milk. The trained dairy' nian s;ys: Why keep cows producing only two gallons of milk a day. when animals yielding three and four times as much, ! cost no more to feed and care for? Fred W. Kicsfd, who is well in-1 formed on dairying, says Utah's big-, gest opportunity is to develop the dairy Industry bv bringing in the best milch cows and bulls obtainable. California Cali-fornia has been working along those ; lines until .the state, instead of being a hf-a importer, is about to export' dairy products to Holland, the land ofj milk and butter. In climate, soil and water Utah is naturally favored as a dairy region |