| Show County Agent Reed Beed Moore Tells of Educational Tour of oi West II Last week we left at the Oregon line before crossing into North ern California via YREKA In California the county agent Is called the farm advisor Our first point of interest was the Shasta Dam a huge lake that furnishes most of the water for tor Northern California to Valley Hereford Ranch At Redding Mr Walter Johnson John John- son Farm Advisor took us to the Crowe Hereford Ranch where we saw the results of a proficiency test on this herd The test is made on rate of gain per day amount of ot feed per pound of gain and as the eye sees The cattle families are very carefully checked and records are kept They feature the best gains in the shortest time We also visited a ranch where acres of ot controlled burning and made the ranch a very profitable enterprise At Red Bluff we heard Leland Lelan Frey tell teU us of ot the annual bull sale Winterton Bros Dros attend this almost every year At Orland the large farm tarm of ot the Finch Bros was visited They have bave all their feeds feed grown have nave havea navea a 2000 head feed teed lot raise rice clover seed silage yards etc It is one of ot the largest diversified farms arms in California One inter esting thing was the weed control in Ladino Clover Some of ot the chemicals use used l are very selective Northern California Saturday evening and Sunday were spent in Berkeley and San Francisco The Mormon Temple at Oakland could be seen from many points The Golden Gate y Bridge and Bay area made an interesting in interesting in ride On Monday we toured the campus cam earn pus of ot the University of ot of Call CaU fornia heard n fine discussion of their Extension Service and the University work Monday noon and part of the afternoon were spent at the Dow Chemical plant at Pittsburgh and Walnut Creek Then we headed for the Nev Nevada da State line Une Had fad lunch with some H 4 4 H folks at Lake Tahoe Hera lIero we observed the huge tourist and vacationer impact on this area The demands of ot the tourist are I great here 1 Stayed at Reno Tuesday night j NUtt sed sedi Wednesday July 24 we visited the State Capitol at Carson City At Gardnerville a most modern dairy was visited everything prat automatic Montana Plant At we went through an up up date packing plant and ancl after that we toured the Ana conda ruining mining operations w where era copper is being mined and milled Tom Tout Cook agent discussed with us the Extension Program with the Indians He ne must travel to many reservations to do hl his work At Winnemucca an alfalfa seed aeed cleaning plant was viewed an and a anew new irrigation development Thou sands of ot new acres are being put pu under cultivation T The e journey and tour toW came to toan toan toan an end at this point We went d 4 back to Pocatello and there sep dep to our various states It was a very worthwhile an and educational tour Thanks Thank to the Dow Chemical Co I 1 |
