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Show By Louis A. Jensen County Agricultural Agent 1 The first county training school this year for 4-H club leaders is being held Thursday. May 3, in the Roosevelt L.D.S. church. This is an apportunity for every club leader to get val-uable val-uable information which will enable them to carry on successful success-ful work with their clubs during the coming year. We urge every person who will be leading a club this year to be in attendance. attend-ance. Further details as to the time and program will be sent to the leaders. With the coming of warm weather our pastures are getting green and it is a temptation to turn our dairy cows in. Too early grazing of pastures is bad in two ways: First, it weakens the stand and cuts down future fu-ture productivity of the pasture. Second, it may result in a serious ser-ious drop in milk production, since early grass has a low nutritional nu-tritional value. A good rule for dairy men to follow is to wait until the grass is four to six inches high and the ground Is firm enough that the cows won't cut up the sod. Even then it is a good idea to take more time to get the cows on a full pasture feed. It would be well to turn the cows on pasture pas-ture for just a few hours each day for the first few .days, during dur-ing this time they ould tave access to dry roughage Th e best dairymen will continue to keep roughage available througnout the summer. I Last week "wlre visited by Elmo Packer, manager of the Cache Valley Breeding Association, Associ-ation, the organization to which ! both of our artificial breeding Groups belong. Mr. Packer spent considerable time with our two technicians, Charles Edwards, of Myton. and Clyde Lisonbee of Bluebell. He states that he is very pleased with the Progress being made here. Conception rates are about equal to those of other groups, and most of the dairymen are pleased with the service While he was here, two evening eve-ning meetings were held to ais-cuss ais-cuss problems with the dairymen. dairy-men. Mr. Packer emphasized the importance of observing' cows closely and cooperating fully with the technician in order to obtain maximum benefit from : the program. |