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Show I'tah could raise aa (hie potatoes an any Htale in the I'tilon, but the I'lal farmer didn't tuke pain to market hi crop bo that It would command a ready market. Probably thla charge against the aeed raisers of Millard la not true o; all of t lieiu. hut one can aee how one shipment of poor aeed from the country coun-try will Injure all grower. Probably no county In tho state raise liner aeed than Millard, nor In greater quantity, and It ought to earn I he reputation of marketing the high-eat high-eat grade of aeed. We believe thin could be accomplished by an assocla-tlon assocla-tlon of seed grower working along the same line aa the fruit growers association as-sociation of Hood Kiver, which has given a reputation to the Hood Kiver applcM that secures for them the highest high-est price paid for apples from any part of tho I'nlted Stales. The association asso-ciation never lets an apple go out of the country that Isn't perfect. Mrn bid for the privilege of buying these apples. It is the same with other associations as-sociations of farmers organized to pro. mote the sale of their prducts. They give their prducts a reputation which secures for them a ready sale at the highest prices. It could be the same with the alfalfa seed of Millard county. Let an association asso-ciation of the seed grower be formed with a warehouse and the most Improved Im-proved seed cleaning machinery Installed. In-stalled. Iet an Inspector be appointed to see that the seed Is perfectly cleaned clean-ed and all of the highest grade possible. possi-ble. There might not be quite so much seed, but It would be of a quality that would command a ready aale at the highest market price. If this course la pursued for a few year Millard county seed will have as enviable a reputation reputa-tion as Hood Kiver apples. TO ALFALFA SEED RAISERS. The editor has been making some Inquiries among the seed buyer In Salt Lake as to the need of forming ' an association among the seed grower of Millard county, and the reasons for the difficulty of disposing of the seed this year. The reason for the slow movement of seed this year, they all say. He with the farmers themselve. It Is all owing to the poor quality of the seed, they say. It Isn't half cleaned. clean-ed. One grower said the farmer clean the seed, then they clean the refuse to get a little more seed and throw this in with the cleaned seed, the result being a lot of poorly cleaned seed. One grower showed us a sack of seed, one of a recent shipment, which be had bought on sample, which didn't compare with the sample sent. He had paid 10 cent for It and wa offering It tor 8 cent. He told of a car shipped east by another buyer who had to hawk it around amongst different buy-ri buy-ri and be finally had to sell It for ' two cent les than he paid for It, be- 1 cause of It Inferior quality. He ay i the seed from Kansas and Missouri I 1 first class In every respect It Is lerfectly cleaned. The German -ed, of which there Is a good deal Imported, i is of the same high quality. I He denied that there wa any com- ' binatlon among buyer to keep the price down. That good seed I always ( ill demand. ' One buyer gave hi experience In ( buying a car of oa from an Idaho i farmer. The oats were wet and on i drying them out he found he had paid v for about a ton of water. The farmer ( had put about a gallon of water ln- each aack of oat. Which show that f this farmer had learned the promoter s ! trick of watering hi stock i Another buyer aid the ftah farmer bad allowed the Colorado farmer t.i t capture the potato market by hi care 1 lessnes In not grading hi po'atoe ( |