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Show AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Material for This Department Is From the Information Service of the Utah Agricultural College. Equipment Is an Important Factor In Dairy Business (By Ben R. Eldredgc, Dairy Specialist, Extension Division, U. A. C.i There are some yards and stables where lakes an Immense amount of help in pet the dairy work donp and others wherp the same amount of help would result in almost twice the pro-duct pro-duct Stables that are well lighted, well arranged, with roomy feeding al' levs, hard floors with even suiface which makes the work of clearing much less: all of these things makej for a low cost of produclion. Yet you will go into hundreds nf dairy barns where there are no windows, wher;; the feed is crowded through narrow spaces into clutlpred mangers where the floors are rough and uneven so j that hours of work will not make them clean because cleanliness is impo-Bihft impo-Bihft under such conditions Verv often stock have to be driven considerable distances to water and this work alone adds to the cosl of thp rare of stork and the irregularity rhat I necessarily follows adds to the cost of the product In that such Irregular-1 ity always results in a curtailment In the volume of the milk Then, too, ;he efficiency of the workers is retarded by such conditions. They seem to be carrying a burden of Inconvenience that causes ihem to lac in their w trk Let us consider conditions about our own farms, carefully look over the herds, cut out the "boarders" and we will cut the cost of production Let us begin an experiment by feeding those best milkers a little rolled barlev.l chopped corn (chop it fine), or oats or a mixture of all to balance up th lucerne lu-cerne and see if we can't increasp our output sufficiently to justify the added I expense of a grain feed On this point. I however, a satisfactory conclusion can only be reached by a consistent use of the scales and Babcock test. Ler .some light into the barn and see how much easier it is to get about and how i much sooner the milking is done Sav-1 Sav-1 ing in time will lessen the cost of production Just bear in mind the cost 'of doing things and apply it to y,ui jdairv work and yot) will find that the market will cease to be the bugbear ! that It has been in the past. Wnn two million pounds of butter being brought Into this state annually when we should be supplying in expou demand, de-mand, there Is no need to worn- about the market If I were asked toda Wha1 one thing might be generally introduced in-troduced for the greatest advance-inent advance-inent of dairying in this state. I would 'answer records from the milk scales j and the Babcock test. oo IRISH TO BECOME "GOBS 1 CORK, April 20. Thousands of ir sh youths along the south coast are talk- ing of soing to America and joining the United States navy. As sailors, ihoy should be unequaled. For gener-l ations their fathers have lived and got' their daily bread by the sea. They would be adaptable to the navy with little training, for they have been' drilling for months |