| Show E 1 i 1 17 1 If Pf i. i r I- I I I 1 p c L. L f t f t Utah Farmers Tour California as Guests o of First Security About Utah tanners farmers livestock live stock lock operators and end dairymen this I week began a 1 busy schedule of visits and nd studies at ranches feed feedlots feedlots feedlots lots dairies and experimental stations In central California 1 i Visit VIlt Ranches Ranches' The tour organized by First Security Bank used chattered I busses to gather participants from various Ulous points throughout the state and departed as a caravan from Salt Lake City early Satur day daj day afternoon Feb 23 After an overnight stay In Elko Nev the group made It its headquarters In Sacramento for two days while I visiting the University of ot Call all forma College of Agriculture and the Dairy Breeders at st and six other ranches In Inthe Inthe Inthe the area The The Utah agriculturists were scheduled next for tor calls at 18 mor more ranches and similar operations opera opera operations in the S San n Joaquin Valley and throughout the tho central central part art of ot California as far south as Los Angel Angeles s. s i iOn On Monday morning the First Security gro group p was was Joined by over other ranchers who are traveling traveling trav trav- eling with the tour on on a dally basis Western Livestock Journal i 1 Js is sponsoring cosponsoring the Winter Study Group I t Educational View At Davis they were taken thru the Agricultural Colleges College's new Batch which has a capacity of tons per hour At the UIe Dairy Research Center of the college the First Security tourists viewed the new dairy barns which encompass seven sev say en acres of concrete Here experimental exper animals are fed ted on pellet pel let pel-let let and hd wafer diets and effects I of specially mixed compounds on onI I the animals are studied At the California Dairy Breed Breed- ers ere stud also at Davis the tour members viewed a collection of ot prize bulls bulla used for artificial Insemination In I studies and laboratory I work Techniques benefits and problems Involved In artificial breeding were discussed It was noted that some of the animal on display were leased 1 for r as as' high as M per year |
