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Show By Louts A. Jensen County Agricultural Agent Seventeen men from Duchesne County have just returned from a very fine agricultural tour or California. Details of this tour will appear as front-page news in next week's paper. In this column I would like to give a few of my personal impressions of the trip. First, I would like to say that the fellows going from here, and in fact the entire group of 114 men were certainly a fine bunch of men to travel with. To my knowledge there was not a single incident of ill feelings feel-ings or anything of that nature to interfere with our objective of seeing improved methods of agriculture used by California farmers. Many of the- things we saw cannot be put into practice here for various reasons. Some of these include difference in climate, cli-mate, soil and capital with which to operate. However, many of the practices can be used. For instance, at the Wallace Wal-lace Clark Dairy dozens of handy han-dy gadgets were observed which Mr. Clark had made himself. Many of these are simple enough that they can be duplicated dupli-cated on our own farms from seeing them once. I believe the beef men on Our tour were impressed with the desirability of feeding out and fattening more cattle. We could well, follow the example of California feeders in utilizing utiliz-ing cheap roughages, adding the necessary proteins to balance the ration, and coming out with an economical feed. From comments which were made, I believe everyone on the trip felt it very much worth while. Tom Gilbert, of Arcadia, made the statement that he had seen more agriculture on this trip than in all the rest of his life put together. Three years ago a group of 4-H Club boys and their fathers, fath-ers, in Bluebell, met with me to organize a club and decide on projects. After much discussion discus-sion it was decided to start out with Columbia sheep. Inquiries were made and we arranged to purchase a few registered ewes from Elmer Lind of Vernal. This was done against considerable opposition. The price for registered regis-tered ewes at that time was $75. which seemed outrageous. However, in light of present trends in the sheep business, this price was very reasonable. Since obtaining the first few original ewes, these fellows in Bluebell have kept all their ewe lambs and now have .the beginnings begin-nings of some good-sized farm flocks. The other day we had or.a-sion or.a-sion to check these outstanding sheep. The following now have a good start: the U. B. Winkler family. Lee Goodrich and Son1'. John Goodrich and family, and |