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Show 86 bar ley has the local greater yield per a herds. dairy 40 bushels per corn as a limited acre acre it can be Barley ytet'ds for wheat. 68 more economically 75 -100 bushels per Furthermore, barley is feed crop in the livestock a compared to only good substitute Since the growing of industry. climatic factors the farmers have turned to by acre grown to support barley as a corn for is useful substi- tute. ,._ the Through cooperation of government agencies such vation Service and the U.S. Valley more have developed better scientific farming of Agriculture, This has resulted dairy herds, The there is special attention of the pasturelands valley Hay (which. includes both natural and imately 12, 000 acres yielding is used for livestock feed given are the north and northwest section of the hay over the past 50 years in by a 80 per cent and 50 per cent. 69 Since most of the crops grown in Heber land. irrigation facilities and strains of seeds, better methods. the Soil Conser- the farmers of Heber increase in the average y relds per acre of wheat phenomenal barley by Department as to Valley hay are during 70, .. , . op. Cit., p. 22 p. 24. . feeding the located close to the Provo River and in valley where the water table is quite improved meadow hay) the winter months. States Bureau of the Census, Census of Government Printing Office, 1959) 69Sargen, t to and the uti lization of pasture- is grown between 20 to 30 thousand tons per 68United (Washington: geared on high. approx- annum. 70 Alfalfa, another Agriculture, 1959, This |
