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Show County Dairy Tour Attracts 246 Dairymen Tim dairy tour from. Utah county lo Cache county, Saturday, Si ' rubor ru-bor 21, was very successful. There b( lug 24 diary men from various part, of Utah county in attendance, of tills number tliern were Thirty hI. from American Fork. KiKht school busses were filled from I'ayson, Spanish Fork, Springville, Linilon, Pleasant Grove and American Ameri-can Fork, with many Individual cars from other communities of the county. coun-ty. The group left Lehi at 5:00 a. m-, arriving at Wellsville at 9:00 a. m. At Thomas Stewart's farm In Wellsville, they were shown the value of cow testing association work which puts dairying on a positive basis, and eliminates tho poor cow and f fields the others more for larger production. It showed that there had been a net profit from his large herd of cows of 354 11)3 of butter fat per year, per cow, at a feed cost of $67.00 per cow. At the Morning Milk Condensing factory at Wellsville, the men .were shown the excellent market established estab-lished for tho Cache valley whole milk. The new factory can take care of milk from 2,000 cows, at an aver-ago, aver-ago, for tho last year, of 50c per pound of butter fat. The Andrew Nelson purebred herd Bhowed tho valuo of purchasing good heifers from high producing stock. Mr. Nelson hald paid from $300.00 to $-100.00 for each of his heifers and had bought them from livestock which had high cow testing1 production produc-tion records back of them. The same, heifers now belong to the cow testing test-ing association, by which ho found that his cows averaged 394 lbs of fat. fie fdd S lbs of barley and oats per day per cow. (This shows that scrub production is a menace lo dairying! . The Utah Experiment Station dairy rarm showed the value of different feeds, showing thait better feed can be secured from silage than from any other feed, and that silage was Ihe most economical feed that can be grown on an acre of ground. It also showed the value of cow testing anUl the bull association, especially the bull association, in selecting bulls of cow testing areas for high production, and as much as possible li to get proven bulls. Dinner was served at the U. A. C. Cafeteria. At Bishop Ballard's at Benson, one of the most ideal dairy farms in the state, the value of sweet clover for pasture was shown. The value of a cow testing association for the dairymen dairy-men was shown, in as much that he ha'd secured 417 lbs of fat on an average, av-erage, since joining the cow t0stinj association. Steady feed has greatly increased the amount of lbs of butter fat per cow and lessoned the cost per pound of butter fat in his herd. At the Potter farm in North OgUen, the people were shown the value of better feeding. The subject of pasture pas-ture rotation and beitter breeding was shown by Mr- Potter. At the Weber Central Dairy, the farmers were shown the largest cooperative coop-erative dairy in the state. They were shown a $150,000 creamery plant which is owned and supplied by the klairy men. This addition to a greater dairying industry has raised rais-ed the price of butter fat and stab, ilized. "he price of milk on the Ogden market- |