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Show THE nXTAII BASIN FARMER p E P PAR D SERVICE September 15, Associated Beehive Seed Growers of the Uintah Basin. 1927. The Crop and The Weather If you iiave a crop of alfalfa seed you.have produced it by which you doing 'your part in such a way, natural conditions,, over have no direct, control, produced' seed on your alfalfa. In other words, you have so arranged and adapted your operations as. to cooperate with, natural conditions and produce a crop of alfalfa . seed. The Uintah Basin crop at the present time looks to be about , equal in size to the 1926 crop. How the crop is ready to harvest, or almost ready. The time of year is September. Fifteenth and fall may come quickly. The crop is ready to harvest. The time for harvest is here. But the weather is not so nice. The past ten days have brought rains and floods that are unusual in this country at any season or in any year. It does not look as if these storms are over ye t either.. The experience of past years shows that September storms are generally followed by frost. S THE PROBLEM HOW. SEED-GROWER- The seed growers problem now is toi adapt the. handling of his crop to the weather conditions so as to make the most money. Or putting if in another way he wants to save the largest quantity of the better grades of seed. SOME IFS IF THE SEED IS CUT and GETS BEATEH DOWH BY RAIHS some of the seed is pretty likely to be STAINED and some may SWEIL and SPROUT or ROT. Then some of it will SHATTER off in handling. - IP THE SEED RIPE AHD LEFT STANDING the rains and drying will almost certainly SHELL OUT some of the CROP IS seed. IF THE SEED CROP CONTAINS ANY GREEN SEED OR SEED THAT IS HOT THOROUGHLY HARDENED and a heavy frost comes there will almost certainly be some BLACK STT,n in the crop. The amount of black will depend on the intensity of the frost and the amount of immature seed at the time the frost comes. IF THE CROP IS CUT BEFORE ALL THE STT.ti is KTPV there will be some GREEN immature seed and some SHRINKAGE in weight and size as well. Now, of course these IFS may not apply to your crop. If so are either fortunate in having your crop harvested and in you the dry, or you are unfortunate and have no seed crop. Most. Uintah Basin Seed Growers have these IFS to consider. The real problem is to handle YOUR CROP so as to run the smallest chance of loss or damage to select the IF that seems to suit your own field best. If your seed is cut it may. be wet or get. wet but on the other hand it may get dry enough to. stack or thresh and youll hare that much done. You have to do. that before you can cash in on it anyway.; By handling it in small bunches and keeping it fo lying tool long on the ground in one place, the water will rna ea through and your only loss should be the seed that shells and shatters. If you let your crop stand after it is ripe you have your loss from shelling and shattering and you are not ready to hanl it when good weather comes. If you have a small acreage yon mj be able to cut and haul it right away, hut if you have a large acreage you are likely to get behind with your work. Moreover there may very likely be some green cr sappy seed to give yon crop a streak of black if it freezes. I t c If your seed is ALMOST. MATURE but has some green seed and some seed practically mature hut still soft it may shrink if you cut it and it will almost certainly fee pretty black if there ii " a frost. t: th ci re Experience shows that seed that has turned yellow in the burrs, even though it is still soft, will mature into plump bright seed after the crop js cut. Probably feme cf the green seed that is fully grown will mature too. The green seed. generally stays PTeen and shrinks. A pretty good 'rule to follow at this season of the year is to cut when s cf the burrs are ripe and more than half of the other third have yellow seed in them. If yon know.(that, frost is close yon will probably make money by cutting a little earlier. Seed with a greenish color but plump and sound is more marketable than seed with a 1st of Black in it. Of course green immature seed is not worth much most of it is lost in threshing and recleaning. cr ta jt A two-third- i ahi ter 21 rztt We want to see YOU handle YOUR seed crop to the best and make all the money you ran from it. We are not able here to tell you just what to do in yo particular case. You are on the ground and your success depends ou your own judgment and forecast the weatgood luck. You, her for the next two weeks just as well as we m1 and for ric:: i -- - trl2 . tlat era We have tried to point out conditions', Causes, and effects, that may very well Rave to do with your crop and to give yl the results of years of experience with seed crops, so that yon c Utzi irezi exercise your own good judgment ou the basis of that experience taj r:t I THE WEATHER FORECAST from ths U. S. Weather Bure not $ comes to this office every morning (when the stonns do ! the wires down.) Call us up or come in and see. what is ei .to " for the next. 24 hours. ... tv' , Bptr,heritate'to call; on. us to ielp you with .your pritblen ii . 1 s let an:; r 3 v t: V. fT crcr. tv Duchesne G. Repg afa .Ssgdl -- T '! Rooscfretl' ?v Sr'-- : I .? 0 C : . v v.-- T v - t u kWv. ViV - v- T- .? "J Jtrnol ' - 4 . - . |