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Show On Utah County Farms With j Extension Agents "Pasture Demon.stration" Dr. R. J. Evans of the U. S. A. C, Experiment Station has obtained some Reed's Canary Grass seed from the Northwest where the grass has been found to be mast excellent both for hay and pasture purposes. The grass Is especially adapted to places where there is an abundance of moisture, mois-ture, especially In swampy places. We are trying in this county, several suitable place, where demonstrations will be kept close track of and if suitable there will be more of it placed in Utah county. Utah county pastures aren't very good as a rule, in fact, farmers could well afford to put some of their regular farm land Into pasture and make it a PROVED SERE FOR EACH D. H. I. ASSOCIATION IN 1934." Utah has only one association and a goodly portion of this association is in Utah county. "Discarded Cows" One cow in 12 is discarded each year, on the average, by dairy herd-improvement herd-improvement association members because of low production. One in 12 is also discarded because of disease or some cause other than low production. Approximately one cow in 20 Is sold each year for dairy purposes to other dairymen. The total amount of culling, on the average aver-age farm in these associations, amount to 20 percent of the herd. These facts are revealed in a summary of data collected by the part of their rotation system. "Proved Sire Work" Forty-one states have elected to prove sires by the lactation-record method. Six states chase to continue the 12-month method for the time being. One state has not yet decided which method it will use. The goal in 1934 is to prove at least one sire by the lactation method for each dairy herd improvement association associ-ation in operation. Three months of 1934, one-fourth of the year, have passed. If this goal is to be reached in every state during the year, 25 percent of the goal should be already al-ready attained. The following slogan has been adopted: "AT LEAST ONE Bureau of Dairy Industry during the last 2 years to determine why cows were culled. Data from 25 states were studied and the results tabulated tabu-lated on a yearly basis. Cows were 'discarded for the following reasons: 1 low production, 2 udder trouble, 3 sterility, 4 abortion, 5 died, 6 old age, 7 tuberculosis, 8 accident, 9 sold for dairy purposes, 10 other reasons. "Cow Wastage" Thirty-eight percent of the cows discarded were culled because of low production. This represents a cow-wastage cow-wastage of approximately 8 percent. In other words, for each 12 cows the dairy herd-improvement association member raises, one proves to be inferior and must be discarded. The I average dairyman experiences a greater loss than this as dairy herd-improvement herd-improvement association members give more thought to the selection of the cows which they place in their herds than to dairymen generally. This loss, taking the dairy Industry as a whole, amounts to a tremendous figure. Dairymen can greatly reduce re-duce cow-wastage by using good sires and raising only those heifer calves which have good prospects of-being of-being high -producing cows. |