Show FARM TOUR SPONSORED BY CHAMBER ON TUESDAY TUE MORNING thirty members of the vernal chamber of commerce formed a caravan early tuesday morning and visited farms in ashley valley lapoint ballard randlett and ouray valley the tour wag was arranged by the agricultural committee of t the he chamber and county agent clair R acord was in charge the group first visited the lou louis is freestone farm in ashley which is rated one of the tog top farms in the basin although the farm has suffered beverly from lack of water during the past season due to repair work being done on the canal yet crops had come through despite the water shortage the destruction of brush along the vernal manila highway in ashley was inspected by the group the bleak looking brush bordering the road brought out the wrath of some of the members of the party they especially ally objected to the killing of the wild rosebushes rose bushes which were so attractive while in bloom one spokesman said that the road was unsightly for tourists mr acord explained that it was his understanding continued on page 8 marx TOUR SPONSORED 3 I 1 1 0 i t MM in i n continued from page W la 11 that theadate thea idt tate 0 road i commission i would plant gr grass ass when the brush had been removed f csome some fl neali fields and 64 corn patches were inspected at the hugh W colton faring 1 mr colton said in the past five year years production of lyoa hay on the farm had bad been doubled he ile said conlone plot be had harvested 28 t long k as p per er acre of the first cutting cutas he expects to produce five tons per acre for the year the county average Is ai 2 tons at the carls wooley woolley fann farm ln in lapoint a good stand of corn was visited at ballard the effects of white top and knap knop weed were pointed out through persistent peril stent work the farmers are gradually getting rid of these weeds and bringing their lands back into profitable production this was especially true atthe at the squire mangum farm where whore much of the white top had been cleared from the farm by spraying with a gallon of 24 2 4 1 D per acre at the larue pickup farm in randlett a patch of alfalfa had bad been treated with commercial fertilizer three years ago and was still responding with a good production the pickup farm Is a TVA fertilizer test plot in ouray valley where a one fourth million dollar alfalfa seed crop had been raised the group inspected a good seed crop on the orson nielson farm mr acord said that a million dollar alfalfa seed crop had been grown alfalfa in a the county in 1852 1962 after visiting the ouray valley farms the group returned to vernal |