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Show j Highlights Gf Commercial Bank Tour j Of California En Which 114 ! Utah Oanchsrs, Stockman Participated' M Compile by Wesley Dickerson I and Louis A. Jensen ' nne hundred fourteen men tJ central and eastern Utah : r- Zmed last week from an eg-; eg-; vXral tour to California, j TJL tour was sponsored by the i- Smmercial Bank of Utah with cooperation of the Utah Fx-r Fx-r ensio ' service and the Calls' Call-s' wnia Extension Service. The 3" Uintah Basin was well repre-1 repre-1 wnted with nineteen men par- Ucipating from this area Ev- ' ervone was enthusiastic about 1 what they saw and the only tt ! disagreeable thing was coming 'J back home to find everything f here still under a blanket of a;! snow. This indeed was quite a t contrast to the season in Im- oerial Valley where the first v' crop of alfalfa hay was about ' ready to cut. ' The group traveled by chart "5 ered Greyhound bus, leaving 5 Roosevelt at 3 a. m. Feb. 24. In Salt Lake the group was met (V by those from other areas and the bus loads were rearranged. m An ingenious system had been ? worked out previously so that m each member would change buses at different points along , the tour. This was for the pur- N pose of getting better acquaint-ill acquaint-ill ed with people from ojher parts i of the state. ! The first night was spent in 7 Reno. The time spent in taking U in the town was no interfer- 1 ence with a 5:30 breakfast and U an early start the next morning. i At Sacramento, where the tour actually began, the group was met by representatives of the , California Extension Service. ) i The first stop was a tour of k I the campus of the University of : California at Davis. Here agri- cultural students come to obtain the latest information on all phases of California agricul-; agricul-; hire. ( In Stanislaus County the pnn- I cipal attraction was the very ex- ' tellent irrigated pastures. A lot d poot quality land is produc- ing high returns in beef and milk through the use of irrigated irri-gated pastures, which consist mostly of ladino clover, fescue, and perennial rye grass. Dairymen on the tour especially es-pecially enjoyed the visit at the Greenough Dairy just out of Merced. Experimental work is being conducted here on the prevention of milk fever. They have found that a ration of high phospherous and low calcium cal-cium feed during the dry period per-iod aids materially in preventing prevent-ing this common disease of high producing cows. The Clark Brothers Dairies just out of Fresno were outstanding out-standing examples of large dairy herds operated efficiently These men have maintained a production record of over 500 pounds of butterf at per cow for , the last twenty years. Wesley Clark has a standing offer of $50 to anyone who can find life-time production records- on any bull anywhere which are higher than those of his herd sire. This man is a handy man with tools and somewhat of an inventor of useful gadgets for the farm. Some of the things he has made include hay elevators, ele-vators, movable individual calf pens, semi-automatic hay feeders, feed-ers, sprinklers for washing cows in the holding corral, and , a system of cleaning the barn ' and corrals through the use of a stream of water. Milk cans are a forgotten item on this farm, since the milk goes directly di-rectly from the milking machine ma-chine into a large tank cooler through milk tubes. The milk company comes to the farm with a tank truck and draws out the cooled milk in bulk. On Thursday the group visited vis-ited the Kern County Land Company Cattle Feed Yards. This company, with its holdings, hold-ings, constitutes the largest ranch in the world. They own two million acres and lease some land in addition. Their present inventory shows 86,412 cattle, with 36,000 of them cows and 2,469 bulls. Parley Richins is general superintendent. superinten-dent. He, incidentally, is a native na-tive of Utah, having spent most of his life in Logan and Ogden. The Newhall Cattle Company is also a large cattle operation. Calves are raised in -Colorado and shipped to the Coast to be fed out. Here, as well as at all cattle feeding operations observed, ob-served, roughages and concentrates concen-trates are ground and mixed together and fed as one complete com-plete feed in the manger. Their balanced feed contains 78 per cent concentrate and 22 per cent roughage. The roughage is one-half alfalfa hay and one-half one-half straw. The big attraction at the A. H. Karpe ranch in Kern Coun- ty was the $87,500 bull. Baca Prince Domino XX. Here is found also the world's highest priced cow, T. T. Zato Aris. Another An-other bull on this ranch cost Mr. Karpe $65,000 and he ha3 a standing offer of $125,000 for him. Mr. Karpe's personal story is like Cinderella's. He started as a blacksmith and had to borrow his first supply of horse shoes. He later went into the farm machinery business which became be-came very profitable. His present pres-ent ranch was purchased from ex-president Herbert Hoover. He has changed it from almost worthless, unlevel, alkali land to a high producing farm. Extensive Ex-tensive land leveling through the use of heavy equipment, and the application of barn yard manure up to 500 tons per acre has brought about the change. The L.D.S. Church Welfare Farm at Parris, just outside Riverside was one of the most outstanding places visited. This farm was purchased from the Statler Hotels and was formerly form-erly owned by Louis B. Mayer, film producer. It consists of 585 acres of highly productive land. Irrigation water is obtained ob-tained from pump wells and is distributed through a system of underground pipes. There are thirty-five miles of chain-link chain-link fence which completely surrounds the farm, with many cross fences in addition. Principal Prin-cipal enterprises on the farm are Grade A milk production, Hereford cattle for producing beef, a fine herd of Hampshire hogs, and a laying flock housed in individual pens, with feed being brought in and eggs taken out on belts. The party went into the Imperial Im-perial Valley and home by way of Blythe, Boulder City and Las Vegas, arriving home Mar. 3. Anyone interested in more details of the outstanding things observed on this trip could 2et them by contacting any of the men participating in this tour. |
