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Show D:iry Leaders Discuss Herd Improvement Ways i At Annual Dairy Meet i More than 300 dairymen gather-' ed at Utah State Agricultural college July 31 for the ninth annual dairy day to consider ways and means of improving Utah's dairy industry. George Q. Bateman, superintendent superin-tendent of the dairy experimental .arm, reported on a three-year experiment ex-periment conducted on the farm which showed that snow fence silos for temporary silage storage are very economical, costing 42 cents or less per ton to store silage. R. W. Woodward, U. S. D. A. agronomist, cited the results of statewide trials in hybrid silage corn which show that yields can be increased up to 25 percent per acre through the use of hybrids. The benefits of electricity in connection con-nection with dairying was stressed stress-ed by K. W. Browning of the Utah Power and Light company.. Dairymen should avail themselves them-selves of better cows, pay more attention to pastures, use more proved sires, and eliminate disease, according to Director William Peterson, of the state extension service. He believes that dairymen should make dairy-1 ing a business and do so by in-j creasing the size of their herds' Selvoy J. Boyer, agrciultural coordinator for Utah, urged cooperation co-operation with the experiment farm because experiments are too expensive to be carried out by the individual farmer. j -Bang's and other dairy diseases; and calf vaccination were dis-l cussed by Dr. D. E. Madsen, veterinarian at the college, and Prol'essor George B. Caine, pro- ;ram chairman, aired a few of the; problems confronting Utah dairy-? men. Certificates were awarded to owners whose herds averaged more than 300 pounds of butter-at butter-at during the year by Lyman H. 'Rich, extension dairyman. Green certificates were awarded herds that averaged 300 to 350 pounds;, orange for 350 to 400; red, 400 to I."0; blue, 450 to 500, and more' than 500, gold. j When you read opinion never' forget that it is opinion. |