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Show ELECTRIC BRAND IRON USED ON LDS FARM With all the streamlining of the old west they are all but rounding up cattle in a Ford V-8 out on the Hillside Stake LDS welfare farm. Workers on the welfare farm set a new record for branding cattle Saturday, when they used for the the first time a new electric branding brand-ing iron, recently developed by a stake member, according to C. H. Parker, stake president. The stake farm is a 4,000-acre project in Fairfield, Cedar Valley, and was purchased by the stake last spring. The new iron enabled workers work-ers to brand about 100 cattle during dur-ing a two-hour period of cold, windy weather that included rain and snow squalls. Pres. Parker learned of the ironl and found it had been perfected by a man in his own stake and was being be-ing manufactured just a few blocks from his home. He ordered the quarter circle over a bee-hive for the welfare farm and Saturday morning the branding was in full swing. Ted Weaver, who assisted in the branding and who had helped perfect per-fect the iron, related that his own grandfather Weaver had run cattle cat-tle in the very same area during the days of Brigham Young and had branded his from a sagebrush fire. Pres. Parker said that 3,000 acres remain of the 4,000 to be cleared and that groups from six wards, Edgehill, S. Edgehill. Colonial Hills, Mountain View, Monte Vista mi Wasatch go to the farm every Saturday. The ranch is located 42 miles from Salt Lake and is one of the old landmarks in Utah history, having been the location of the camp of Johnson's army when Brigham Young refused to let them enter the valley. The first harvest on the welfare project wras 400 tons of alfalfa and 120 calves, which, it is anticipated, will be increased to 150 this year. The farm will be a beef farm and as soon as the land is ready, grasses will be sown. There are two homes on the ranch and two families keep busy there at all times and each' Saturday Sat-urday members of the priesthood drive out to do their quota and speed up the day when the 4,000 acres will be tilled. The Weavers donated the branding brand-ing iron to the stake and Pres. Parker said, "it's development will mean increased efficiency and production in the future." |