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Show GOT OUT FIRST CARLOAD OF SEED HERE SATURDAY WORTH OVER NINE THOUSAND; THREE MORE TO FOLLOW The first carload of alfalfa seed from Beaver county went out of here last Saturday. C. G. Haskell handled the sale of the seed for local farmers. The consignment went to the Courteen Seed Company of Milwaukee. There were 245 sacks; mostly Grimm, sixty-eight sixty-eight sacks were common alfalfa seed. Seven farmers grew the seed from the South Milford flats. The carload was worth a little over nine thousand dollars. There was a little over 35 thousand pounds in the load. This is probably one of the best cars of seed that has ever gone out of the state. The Grimm was of an especially high grade. There will be four carloads -in all go out of here. The farmers have not all threshed yet; the other three cars are in the making. Haskell has bought nearly all of the remainder and has been doing most of the purchasing pur-chasing in the Beaver bottoms also. The substantial shipments going out of here reflect well upon this cl::-,t:'ict as a seed country when the Utah crop, as a whole, only measures up about fifty per cent. Utah still has a big lead over any other state, however, in the production of alfalfa seed. |