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Show PEPPARO SERVICE September 1, 1928. Associated Beehive Seed Growers Of The Uintah Basin Alfalfa Enthusiasts Visit Uintah Basin and Millard County Under auspices of Associated Bee Hive Seed Growers As we told yon a conpls of weeks ago, the Uintah Basin has just been visited by a party of Alfalfa Boosters from the Central and Eastern States. We did not have time to notify many of the Associated Bee Hive Seed Growers in time for them to meet these folks or accompany them on a tour of the Basin. Seed growers and other Basin people who were fortunate enough to go on the trips found that the visitors were not only mighty nice folks to associate with, but strong boosters for Alfalfa and mostly Utah Alfalfa, too. In fact they got out to this country because they were alfalfa boosters. Most of them won their trips west in some one of a number of contests conducted by the Associated Bee Hive Seed! Grow- ers. It, Xuther Willoughby, Extension Agronomist of Kansas, Mr. F. G. GHurrhill, Extension Agronomist of Iowa, and Mr. C. E. MeGee, Extension Agronomist of Michigan were the three leaders among the Extension Agronomists of eight states in a contest to increase the Alfalfa acreage in their respective states. Then ME. 0. E. Allen of Missouri won his trip in a contest among County Agents by increasing the Alfalfa acreage in his county. He also got promoted to be a County Agent leader. Me. E. W. Bennett, Mr, Iner Hansen, Mr. Alfred George, Mr. Hoy Sears, Mr. H. D. Simmons, Mr. E. G. Vivian, Fred Bassett and C. D. Hunt are all Michigan men who won their trips in contests selling Utah ALFALFA SEED in Michigan. We have forgotten the figures, but Michigan has an awful lot of Alfalfa and' most of it has grown from Utah Seed. These men have really been working for you Associated Bee Hive Seed Growers Selling your seed and getting it planted. Mr T. C. Maurer, Manager of the Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service, buys the great quantities of Utah Alfalfa Seed that these other Michigan men http him to sell. Mr. Ed. Schultz won a contest in selling Cultipackers, and the Cultipacker people sent him on this trin for his prize. Mrs. Schultz came along. When they started home ihey were taking some fine samples of Utah Alfalfa in the burr to the National Hay Conference at Ft Wayne, Indiana. Mir. C. W. Clemmer of the Eastern States Farmers Exchange Seed Department is buying and selling several carloads of Utah Alfalfa Seed every year. He composed several songs about the merits of Alfalfa hay and Utah Alfalfa Seed during the trip. They made big hits in Eoosevelt, Vernal, Price, Delta and Salt Lake City We made up a lot of copies here in the office but they all got away. If someone has a copy that they will leave with us until we can copy it again we will be much obliged. .Mr. Adam Miller who teaches Smith-HughAgriculture in Iowa, joined the party with his family at VernaL He drove to Utah and over the country. Mr. J. W. Nicolson of Chicago is publicity director for the Associated Bee Hive Seed Growers. He is telling some mighty good things about your Alfalfa Seed to a lot of interested' people. He was the leader of the party. Some class to these visitors Alfalfa boosters every one of them, and they have seen the Basin too at least as much of it as could be crowded into the two mighty busy days of travel rig. They have ridden down Indian canyon and over Blue bench. They have looked down over Bed Cap from the Eoosevelt district, the Gilsonite, the State Experimental farm, Mines, and the fossil es exhibits at Ft. Duchesne. They have seen the Moffat section and the Eandlett section. They crossed the Ouray Valley and saw farms growing up in the desert. They visited Ashley valley and Jensen, and heard about Father Escalante and Ashley. They saw the big, rich Lapoint valley from the bench on the East and drove up through Tridell and over Whiterocks bench at the foot of the mountains. They met some of the Indians and pounded the drum at the Indian playground at Whiterocks. They visited Myton and the South Myton bench. During these travels they saw alfalfa almost everywhere. They saw alfalfa that was making seed and alfalfa that was not. They saw fields that were twenty years old and still going strong. They saw tlfalfa hay in Ouray valley waist high with no irrigation since the first cutting came off and dry bare desert just across the road. They saw alfalfa growing right up to the foot of the mountains above Whiterocks. They had a fine chance to see that this old Utah alfalfa that had descended from lucerne planted in Utah pioneer days would withstand the drought and' the extreme temperatures of the deserts, mountain valleys anil mountain sides. And then they had dinner one evening with the Eoosevelt Commercial Club, the next evening with the lions club of Vernal, and the next evening with the Price Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Clemmer' s peppy songs, sung by a five nnan quartet and chorus, added to the entertainment and good time at all these parties. When they were leaving all our visitors expressed themselves as having had a most delightful time. Some of said they had seen so much that they would know more about it after they had digested it for awhile. But here comes the sad part our fields were not near all clean. They saw sweet clover and weeds growing in our seed fields. Mr. Maurer4, Manager of the Michigan Farm Bureau Seed Service, said, We like Utah Alfalfa and we like Sweet Cloveri but our farmers want to keep them in separate fields. We have to buy wid sell pure seed. One sixteenth of one per cent of sweet clover is not very much, hut when a farmed plants it and! it comes up the first year, he can see sweet clover everywhere. It looks bad and he kicks to us. We must sell him nure seed and we cannot handle alfalfa seed with sweet clover in it Now that is giving us some friendly advice. They like our alfalfa but they do not like to plant alfalfa and have sweet clover come up. We are raising this alfalfa seed for the fanners who are going to plant it and we do not want them to kick. We want them to come back for more just as soon as they can get more land ready, to plant. Lets make our seed pure seed. Some Suggestions: I01ir seed may be ripening faster than .you expect. Better look it over. If your crop is very light it may pay to save what hay you can too late. before it is JnsI 0W set on, is too late. It may be caught by frost. Shall it be seed or hay? Cutting and burning all sweet clover and weeds will mak your seed worth more money. The less money you spend before you harvest, Tid durin harvest ang threshing time, the more you will have left when yo sell your crop. Make a market for your some stoc! hay and this winter, or get some d?.irv cows. pummy by feeding J. G. Peppard Seed Company Duchesne Roosevelt Vernal |