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Show MAINTAIN BETTER COWS ON FARM SAYS EXTENSION DAIRYMAN (BY LYMAN H. RICH) Dairymen usually keep a dairy herd for three main purposes, first the profits they can make; second, to maintain the fertility of their farms; and third, to aid in the great job of production of food. This last item h an important im-portant one today in 1145; as the government is calling for 120 billion pounds of milk to aid the war effort. Since 1937 cooperative bull blocs and bull associations have been organized in Duchesne and Uintah counties, providing outstanding out-standing herd sires for service I to the dairymen of these counties to build up their dairy herds. In the past two or three years a great improvement can be noted on farms in the Uintah Basin in the quality of production in heifers heif-ers and young dairy cows. Recently Re-cently information was revealed that in some of the central Utah counties dairymen were buying heifers ready to freshen at much lower prices in the Uintah Basin than they could be purchased for in Cache Valley and Northern Utah. Local agencies have also noted that dairymen are selling some of tneir best stock. Recent data on 5070 dairy cows in herd improvement associations as-sociations in Utah - show that dairy cows producing 200 pounds butterfat per year only return their owners about S50.00 above cost of feed. Cows that produce 300 pounds butterfat annually return $117.00 above feed cost, while cows producing 400 lbs. make $172.00 per cow. A few of the highest cows on record are returning their owners $276.00 above the cost of feed. When this is put on a basis of a 10 cow herd, a 200 lb. herd is returning $530 while 300 lb. herd gives a return of $1170 above cost of feed. The facts show it takes 11 cows in the lowest producing group to equal 1 cow in the highest high-est group. If the better dairy Reds Shell Stettin as Berlin Push Nears a I mopping up oni IV's. xT MT V BALTIC POCKETS "92? ORTElSOUftG v BERLIN BOMBED J jf X jd , Mby mosquitos W VQlVISTUlA R jr GERMAN y v 9 ItjO .jgjiA? ' POLAND jgftw cr As Red Army reached Stettin Bay (1), Russian troops closed in this 'Port of Berlin while the First White Russian Army is reported to have smashed bridgeheads over the River Oder at Schwedt, 45 miles northeast of the capital and 28 miles southwest of Stettin. From a trategic standpoint, nossession of Stettin, as well as the action against the Breslau and Dresden areas have been consider ed part of the Berlin campaign. Mopping up of Baltic ports is being speeded up from Koenigsberg to Kolberg, as indicated by arrows. i t cattle are sold out of the county, coun-ty, the post war period dairymen will find themselves in the same position as they were following the 1934 depression. Only good cows can pay a profit, especially when butterfat is selling in the lower priced brackets. Many dairymen' are said to be "turning "turn-ing their well-bred herds to service ser-vice with beef or milking shorthorn short-horn sires. Cross-breeding dairy cattle has never paid. The selling to outsiders of hay and feed needed need-ed in the Basin is also a very poor practice. Feed the alfalfa hay to high producing cows, cull the low producers and maintain fertility on the farm. After the war prices may not be so high. Keep the cows that pay a good return. Dairymen that expect to make a good profit after the war should keep in mind three things: (1) produce abundant high quality feeds; (2) produce a good quality product that the consuming public will buy, and (3) use good herd sires to day so that female replacements in the future will pay a profit. |