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Show Wiews From Farm-Ranch THROUGH THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF UTAH BY WES DICKERSON Keep solid financially. There are indications that the pre-Korea pre-Korea 1949 business weakness may be returning. Use the remaining re-maining months of this defense supported boom to get ready to operate successfully with weaker markets. This information was recently received by the Bank. You can obtain more of the details de-tails by calling in person at the Commercial Bank of Utah, Roosevelt Roos-evelt Office. Increased interest is bein;? shown in starting beef cow herds. There is no formula for deciding whether a farm should have a beef cow herd or if feeders feed-ers should be bought. If ou have a large amount of permanent perma-nent pasture, grain stubble, 2nd corn stalks, beef ' cows may be the best choice. Generally, they can use this roughage to better advantage than feeder calves or yearlings. Very little grain is needed to keep a beef cow herd, i A long-time sow and calf program pro-gram will provide a lower risk operation than feeder cattle. The net returns per unit usually are low and considerable volume is needed to make much income from a beef cow herd. A combination of both a beef cow herd and a feeder set-up has proved practical on many farms. The operator keeps his own steer calves to feed and buys enough more to give the feeder operation its needed volume. vol-ume. This is something of a hedge against higher feeder prices when the farmer is buying. buy-ing. If feeders are cheap it gives him a chance to feed his calves and. possibly realize a larger I profit on the finished animal. |