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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER a6; igo8 TEE' DESIRET JARMfK r I
WHAT TO LOOK FOR AT THE
STATE FAIR IN THE
DAIRY SECTION.
, Guernsey i.
'Tlic Agricultural College promises
to "Have a string of Guernseys at the
'Fair and it will be the first time many
of our readers have had an opportuni
ty to see this breed of cattle.
The Guernseys arc of course a dairy
breed and for that 'reason ought to
become very popular in th'S state.
The Guernseys came originally from
Guernsey Island, one of the little is
lands in the English channel, off the
j coast of France. For many years this
' breed was protected at home by the
exclusion of all other breeds.
The breed as a butter producer is
entitled to special distinction. The
milk is of higher natural yellow -color
than of any other breed, due to its
.butter-fat content. The fat globulei
are large and have a deeper yellow
even than the Jerseys. One of the
noted cows of this breed, Yeksa Sun
beam, at the age of nine years, pro
duced in one year 857.1 lbs. butter-fat,
equivalent to 1000 lbs. butter. This
test was officially supervised by the
) Wisconsin Experiment Station.
Our dairymen will do well to study
this breed and make inquiries con
cerning them from those in charge of
? 'u' Mic exhibit.
Jerseys.
' Of course there will be a strinr
Jerseys at the Fair. We do not km f
just who will show this year, but the
Jersey breed has long been popular
j in Utah.
I Among our prominent breeders are
Barker ofl Ogden, Caine of Logan,
I Crystal Spring Dairy Farm of Manti,
Winder of Salt Lake, and many oth
ers, Holsteins.
There are a few good Holsteins in
Utah, especially up in the Cohdenscd
Milk region of Cache Valley. The
Agricultural College has a small herd
and a few of these will be on exhibit.
The Holsteins have received a good
deal of attention in these columns
?nd deserve it, It is one of the larg
est dairy ibrceds, in fact it is among
I the largest breeds of cattle. This
5 breed takes high rank as a butter pro-
j ducer on account of the large yield
, of milk. One cow of this breed,
Pauline Paul, 2199 H. H. B., is said
I to have produced in "a private test in
K one year M54 pounds of churned and
K saltod gutter. In our issue of May
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23 108 we told of a test conducted by
the '-Wisconsin Experiment Station
with a black and white, "Colantha
4th'j Johanna. During 365 days this
cow turned out an average of 72.4
pounds of milk per day, which made
998.26 lbs. of butter-fat qual to 1248
pounds of butter. Give this Dutch
brce-1 a fair show and while at the
Fair, look them up and see if there
isn't something about them that you
have not heretofore known!
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WHY FARMING MUST BE
SCIENTIFIC.
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Ottawa, 111. Trader: The Econo
miste Francais, speaking recently of
the demands of Europe on America
for cereals, anticipates a day in the
near future when this country may
cease to be an exporter of gram and
meat, owing to thehomc demands of
the population of the nation, With
an immigration of over a million a
year, and the augmentation of the
population by births alone by 2 per
cent per annum, while for the most
par$ there is no increase of rural
population, either there must event
ually be, in the absence of any pos
sible increase in the area of the farm
lands, a decline to secondary import
ance of the nation as a "grain exporter
or a large increase in the yield per
acre.
Hitherto it has been necessary only
to conquer new lands in order to en
large our yield of grain; but for ob
vious reasons, as the Economists
points out to those who may not
have realized it, "running back sever-
PRESIDENT ANTHON H. LUND, FOUNDER OF THE A. C. U.
Hon. Anton H. Lund, who is the
father of the ibill creating our State
Agricultural College. There is prob
ably no man in the state who is more
universally admired and respected
than is President Lund. He is a man
of splendid education, liberal views,
and warm sympathies, and his efforts
have always been directed toward the
improvement pf agricultural condi
tions in tht west. The Agricultural
College has always been a source of
pride to President Lund, and he re
joices in the fact that hundreds of
young men have hod in that institu
tion an opportunity to qualify them
selves for a more intimate knowledge
of the .common things of the farm.
President Lund believes in farmers'
schools, u farmers' institutes, in fajrm
journals and in all of the factors thaf
0 to make for a 'better fawn life, ,rfrm
al years, one is obligated to admit M
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that the area under cultivation in the M
United States is increasing but slow- M
ly," and that "only in the wholly new fl
regions, such. as thcDakotas, Texfcs M
and the Pacific states, can any sub- fl
stantial increase in the rural popula- H
tion be seen." In the meantime, our H
arable lands arc "growing old" and H
losing somewhat of their virgin ferti- H
lity.
It docs not follow, however, that H
on that account our yield should be H
less per acre; indeed', in some of our H
older states the yields of wheat, -e, g , H
arc greater per acre than in the newer
states of the West. But it does fol-
low that there must be a -change of H
method extensive farming must give H
way before the intensive methods H
based on agricultural science; the H
science of the schools and the labora-
torics must take the place, or, rather
supplement, the empirical knowledge
of the practical farmer. When this
is done there is no reason why a yield
of 30 bushels, or more, of wheat may H
not t be grown, as in England, ot I
American wheat lands that now yield
not over 16 bushels. And so of all
our .cereals. Hitherto we have farm H
cd with riotous waste of natural soil
tcsourccs; hereafter we itiust needs
conserve them or starve.
A native plant in Borneo, we arc
told, is known as the clock plant. Our
informant goes on to say that "the
name is derived from the action of
the sun's rays on the leaves, wliich
are three in number a large one ex-
tending forward, with two small ones I
at the base pointing sideways. Thc3c
coming in contact with the rays of the
sun oscillate like the pendulum of i I
clock, the larger leaf moving upward I
and -downward, going its full length
every forty-five minutes. The smal-
Ier leaves move toward the larger,
completing the distance forward and
backward every forty-five minutes,
thus resembling the hour and minute
hands of a clock."
Now, if some latent Burbank down I
there in Borneo will come along and I
graft a blue-bell on the plant, they
will have something worth while. tH
You would never have to wind it
When it ran down, instead of yelling
for someone to wind it up, you would
simply .call to the hiredi man, fjjHfcy '
there, bring out a shovel full of man- I
rure, tlielok, is cunning dowli. '
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