Show Ai Alfalfa Fads s and nd Figures Figures a i L. L of the successful ranchmen t J. J Marsing one i iI I gives gives the Record some facts and figures in the last yea years year's s 's production production pro pro- j. j of alfalfa seed that should be an incentive to the farmers farm farm- i t ers on the Reservation to make an unusual effort to get every t r available acre into alfalfa as rapidly as possible I z I Fred Case one of Mr Marsing's neighbors raised 18 j bushels to the acre on his ranch it i- i F. F Bench of Boneta produced a trifle over 18 bushels to t the acre i i I Mr Marsing's entire crop went 15 I 2 1 2 bushels to the acre i I Their seed weighed 80 pounds to the bushel At this rate I t a bushel 15 to the acre crop means a production of 1200 I 4 pounds per acre y These gentlemen sold soon after threshing at 12 2 1 cents f t f a pound 1200 pounds multiplied by 12 2 1 cents a pound J 1 makes exactly a production of in cash per acre i i 4 Dealing in post mortems had these p producers held their j t. seed a couple of months longer hey rhey would have received ved from r. r t 3 to 5 cents more per pound or from 36 36 to 60 more more per acre z i f s These are re absolute facts facts facts-facts facts and figures figures' that can be verified by anyone who will take the interest to do so r. r j The Record continues to affirm that the Uinta basin is the I best country in the West Vest from the standpoint nt of a p producer producer- I t railroad or no railroad Alfalfa seed alone will make the Reservation Reservation Res- Res e atio settler the most independent t farmer in the h intermountain Res-I Res j i f. f ain am section t or J l r 4 d i F o r Y I r |