AFTER EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE VAEIOUS SITES OFFERED, THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SELE 



AND CLIMATE OF THIS COUNTY. THE PRESENCE OF THE UNIVERSITY FA 



and the climate is the "growing" kind There are many magnificent stands 

 of alfalfa throughout the county, and farmers, heretofore used to endless 

 fields of grain, now are adopting alfalfa on smaller acreage and making 

 more money than they were under the old method. 



Whether the alfalfa hay is sold or fed to stock on the farm it is a big 

 profit maker. Many farmers require all they can grow for their own 

 purposes. 



Dairying 



Dairying in Yolo County is highly profitable, and it is a matter of pride 

 to the residents of this section that some of the world's prize cows are found 

 in Yolo County dairies. A. W. IMorris & Sons, dairymen and breeders of thor- 

 oughbred Holstein cattle, have established several world's records in their herd, 

 including the first and third cows in the world to produce over 28,000 

 pounds of milk in a year, and the only two cows in the world that have 

 produced in excess of 50,000 pounds of milk in two successive years. 



A Yolo County cow, owned by A. W. Morris & Sons, in November, 1914, 

 established a new world's record. This cow, Tilly Alcartra, closed a year's 

 test under the direction of an expert from the University of California Farm 

 School with the most remarkable milk yield in history. The dairy world has 



HOGS — A SOURCE OF READY AND EASY MONEY IN CONNECTION WITH THE DAIRY AND ALFALFA FIELD 



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