Show 00 sol 0 5 first shipment of dairy cattle under compera cooperative tive plan arrive friday the first cooperative shipment of dairy cattle to enter grass valley arrived in koosharem Koo sharem friday april 1 the shipment consisted of two cars of forty five head comprising thirty five holsteins and ten jerseys in the shipment was a yearling pure bred L lull sired by th h az f vaz oj marathon dess bess buike twenty fifth lull bull owned by the richmond bull association in cache valley the last named animal comes from an ancestry whose twelve nearest st danis dams average avera C more than one thousand pounds of butter fat this bull will aill be a big assistance in in imp imploring impi oving loving the dairy stock of grass valley the cattle were selected by a committee appointed by br the cooperators as follows bishop edward C bagley joseph nelson anti and soren soi ensen gilbert hallows ralland anderson and alvin helquist went vent along for the trip and to purchase their own cows the committee was accompanied compa nied by county agent S R boswell one day was spent in utah county looking over the jerseys anti and holsteins there in cache valley the committee 0 o was assisted by W W owens anti and george B cain of the utah agricultural college county agent R L wrigley the cow testers in the various associations and the off officials of the cache county holstein breeders bleeders Bre eders association cache county has five cow testing associations with 2070 being tested each month by official testers tile the average production of the cows in the associations is pounds of butter fat the committee grea gread difficulty in purchasing the cattle A number of buyers have b een p in m the valley from Cli california fornia and other western sections and the stock has been well ell picked over the committee also allo had several competitors competitor during their visit there the prices were high but some good animals were secured the prices on grade cows milking ranged from to anti and the pure bred from 2000 to most alost of the cattle secured were milking ng or would be milking before sixty days this condition was planned so that tile the shippers could p pay ay off their loans immediately from their milk checks the cattle were purchased from a number of the best herds in cache valley five head were secured from kenneth murphy of wellsville mr murphys Murp hys herd had the highest average butter fat production in all associations in 1926 the shipment left logan on sunday and arrived in sigurd wednesday afternoon at provo J E nelson added a very choice pure bread jersey cow from the herd of william A nuttall several calves arrived between the time the were bought and arrived in koosharem Koo sharem this is the biggest step forward grass valley has ever made in the dairy business grass valley has now found itself cache valleys improvement began in 1911 and today she can export a car of good dairy daily cattle per day who will dare to predict grass valleys condition in 1943 |