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Show Hew Prodsds Eeinj Manufactured From IV.Vi Whether you own a dairy herd or not, perhaps you can thank old bossy for the clothes on your back. Clothing, fountain pens, combs, plastics and many other products are now being mantil'a' l ured from milk, according to Lyman H. Rich, Utah Stale Agricultural college extension dairyman, who returned recently from a stale extension dairymen's roufeience in Washington D. C. The stale dairymen were ac. quaintcd wilty accomplishment' of research Workers of the U S. Department of Agreullure ii the dairy industry. In a stud of research on dairy by-produ. they learned, for example, I'i; army shirts are made up . from 10 to 50 per cent milk products. Mr. Rich reported that'eonsid-erable that'eonsid-erable research is being carriei on in dairy feeding and nutrition nutri-tion on such phases a.s raisin; heifers on all-rougliage diet: feeding thyroprotcin ; pulling pro tein in the diet of cows. etc. Information on dairy herd improvement im-provement work obtained at the conference was of special interest, inter-est, to the Utah extension dairyman. dairy-man. More than 3600 sires are now in the process of being proved Over 181)0 records are being received re-ceived daily from (esters "tin".' out the 48 stales. Most dair sires have been jnoved already this year than were proved during dur-ing all of 1916. Yet only three per cent of all the cows in Ihc United Stales are on I est. In comparison,- Utah now has eight per cent on lest, r'1r. Rich re Hilled. Willi the rapid spread of artificial ar-tificial breeding associations throughout the country, more proved sires will be needed. The DIM groups aie the ones that must prove the sires lor these associations, it was pointed out. "The live day school at the bureau of dairy industry and the government's Beltsville farms gave indication that much good is being accomplished by research re-search workers of the USDA,' Mr. Rich said. In addition to the experiments being conducted on the by-products and feeding and nutrition, research is being devoted to the effect of nutrition on mammory gland development; relation of harmoncs to udder development; actors effecting barn drying of hay; rearing calves without the whole milk and very little skim milk; cross breeding of dair caitle; mastitis control, and ways of detecting calves which will be high producers. A native Utahn, J. W. Thomas of Spanish Fork, is assisting with the experiments on the feedings of thyroprotcin, which steps up pioduciion and increases increas-es the heart beat, he reported. |