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Show BYU Openhouse To Show Off New Project Farm Brigham Young University will sponsor an open house at its new-iy new-iy acquired project farm at Spanish Span-ish Fork on Nov. 6 from 2 to 5. The public is invited to attend, and guided tours will be conducted conduc-ted at that time. The farm will be ussd as an experimental and project area for advanced students stu-dents of 'the animal husbandry, horticulture and agriculture departments. de-partments. The 601-acra farm is located two and one-half miles. south and one and one-half miles east of Spanish Fork. Visitors may reach the farm by driving south on Highway 91 two and one-half miles to a surfaced road on the left, where signs point east to the farm. One of the most modem plants in the area and one of the best of its kind at the university level, the farm will present problems of a practical nature to students on that level that they would confront when (farming for themselves. them-selves. A new milking parlor that can handle eight cows at once, a new automatic milk cooling tank, four large lounging sheds for the dairy herd, three holding corrals, a bull pen, a maternity ajid calf barn, five homes and a grain and silage pit are all part of the modern facilities whioh will be ready for inspection. BYU's dairy herd, one of the finest in the nation, has been moved to the new farm from its previous location north of the campus. Composed of 180 pure-bneids, pure-bneids, the herd presently has 66 milking cows. The Animal Husbandry Hus-bandry Department expects to have 80 milking by January 1, according to Dr. Lawrence Morris, Mor-ris, department chairman. The farm, although designed to be self-supporting, isn't intended as a competitor for established dairies in the area. Rather, it is designed solely as an experimental experiment-al testing and training ground for BYU student projects. At present the land is broken down as follows: 120 acres of dry land, 70 acres to be used for an orchard and horticultural experimentation exper-imentation and 400 acres for the growing of alfalfa and grazing. The new farm will augment the smaller student project area located lo-cated near the campus. The smaller farm will be used solely as an area for student projeots of a small nature, whereas the new farm will be an area for projects of a larger and more practical scale. |