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Show 3 THE UINTAH BASIN FABMER on each type is successful can only be determined through trial. The field will have to be finished in such a way as to keep out sheep, hogs, and other small animals as well as larger animals so the harvesting of plants will give definite Raising Alfalfa Seed In The Uintah Basin By IRA S. BRYANT. the Uinah Basin Famers: I a been asked by farmers, both e Ashley Valley and Reservation .ons of this Great Uintah Basin, to make a successful crop of fa seed. hat is a hard question ter answ-wher- e there are so many diff-- t kinds of land to contend with ill tell you of my experiences i the alfalfa seed raising. I the first place I would suggest i each farmer would, make an riment on his own farm. I have kinds of land on my farm and t will work on one will not work Jie others, all the way through, ce, I' have to treat each separat- - job too thoroughly, Mr. Farmer. After this is done I start marking the lighter land, and continue until all the fields are marked. The marking only requires a part of Get the others busy your force. cleaning the farm laterals and main ditch also, if you have one, and irrigate this lighter land right away as it takes more water than the other three. I keep on with the water until No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 land is irrigated. My No. 4 land does not need any water for a seed Then there is the expense of taking care of the work. There should be available fer such a plat at least $4000 the first year over and above the expense of land, fencing and livThree thousand doling quarters. lars will be necessary the second This would count on keep- year. always make seed of the first I will You ask me why. tell you. First, there is the chal-ci- s fly, one of the worst pests that ever struck a seed field. Second, the early frosts. Third, scarcity of water in August. Fourth, the lateness of harvest and danger of When the storms before stacking. When seed pod dries it shrinks. a rain storm comes the seed pod swells again and when dried a second time the seed pods cracks letting out onto the ground most, if not all, of the seed. As for hay, if you have plenty of water you can make a second crop This is far safer than of hay. to run the second crop for seed, It does not help or hinder the seed crop to irrigate your land a week or ten days before harvesting the seed crop, and you have your hay well under way before the seed is You get a very off the ground. fair crop of hay, too. I wish to say a few words in the way of preparation. Right now is the time to get ready for your culGet your machines ready. tivating. If you need repairs see if your implement store has them in stock, if not, have them order your needs. Put your teams on better feed rations and have them stout and able to do a days work when spring j crop. vill give nearly as I can just how which does not produce y. I use a renovator, which is I go like tooth disk harrow. Then I nd the patch twice. t a single operation of the en-- 1 field, ditch banks and all, to dig the ditch banks !y soil l oughly. this work on the light soils as it marks much earlier than j throufh ! . . as or : ida iini IDA- isn isn SPREADING IX BELGIUM U5I 1151 tfil ida ISA IDA tffl We guarantee to give not less than $1.00 per bushel 1101 for first class marketable wheat at threshing time this fall. ISA 1151 IDA 1151 IDA IDA IDA' Vernal Mill & Light IDA Co. Uril jCATTLE DISEASE IS ll m 1151 he hav- penod of growing plaf ing the place in charge of some one else during the balance cf the year. This would probably permit the planting of twenty acres the first year and additions into larger field plats later. Such an appropriation from the legislature would carry the station two years, but it should be rathei definitely understood that it develops an obligation which would allow it to continue until definite results had been procured. I continue the heavier land. way on all four kinds of land .hustle through. 1th me last year T was 10 days the fields the first time. Now a - int on the light soil again and go I place my r.r the fields again. f round on th ridge left by the c ide of the renovator, placing the t... t astride the ridge, thus the cen-J- f U: the machine is where the out-rwbefore. sr aving completed this field I take ur horse team and a alfalfa cul-,t . a t: and go over the same land V a. Of couse I do not let the 3: - t s I am now using 8 does open up. r rator stop. i 1 as. It does not take as heavy a Some of you may have land that is it a ;t .t t on the cultivator as the re-t- vey productive, growing stalks too e i as has dug the land up four large which fall down. Such land b,-- i deep. a- should be plowed and planted to We need the wheat very hen I am over all with this last wheat ition the land resembles a plow-el- badly and a good crop of wheat or 5 T The above is the secret corn is worth much more than a i You cannot do this poor crop of alfalfa seed. access. 21 a to e proviof the man not need to be comfort- able. crop. fat each of these to make them First My light luce seed. kart results. There will also have sion for living quarters in charge. This does be elaborate but should inn Mr. Farmer NOTICE This! 1151 Iffil 1151 U51 111 IDA 1 BRUSSELS, Dec. 23. The foot and mouth disease among cattle is still spreading in Belgium, accordWhen answering advertisements ing to the latest reports. There are ca'ses of the disease in 3535 farm- please mention THE UINTAH BAS IN FARMER. yards scattered in 983 villages. BigMama mmmmm ALFALFA SEED il ipw a : or : CHALCIS FLY is the greatest ME1IACE to the Uintah Basin Alfalfa Seed Crop d. i . ftf S . ' periment Station . i : ' B t L. fu t i: d ,r. If1 a - lr 1 K' n 0 n t : t (t i , s i 0, t 1 . sr t i 1 c 1 1 t 1 $ e X f! a i t I .3 l 1 i get i r P - A 1 i t o2 is r r f optimum amount. The character of the work undertaken should include the following. VARIETY TESTS This will e following letter was .received clude a careful test of lylas C. Smith, project leader Of alfalfa known and in- all varieties may extend he Uintah county farm bureau into the breeding of new varieties. he alfalfa seed experiment sta-fTIME OF CUTTING OR PASTURE Is it possible to grow seed from the Uintah Basin, from director. Utah Agri-r- the first crop? Is it economical to It it best experiment station and U. produce a crop of hay? This ia to pasture and then attempt to grow . extension service. parding needs and costs as seen a crop of seed? IRRIGATION At present there is Irector Peterson and is written much controversy as to when to watt date of January 20th. attempting to answer you as er alfalfa for seed production. Sufhat is necessary for the carry-- a ficient plats should be used so that of an alfalfa seed experiment-r- water at all times might be comin the Uintah Basin there pared to be able eventually to give number of questions that need definite recommendations. A tract of land of from PLANTING This will include extion. sy to forty acres should be pur-- i. periments in methods of planting which could probably be pro-- and will extend into tests of drill and row planting as well as the orfrom the Indian agency. The on of the land should be se-- 1 dinary method used. Then the It should drill and row planting will permit with great care. tract which comes as near of of cultivation and give a chance to determine whether or not cultivation g the type of soil and as possible to repre-th- e and the large amount of space beland in fore plants is advantageous or econmajor part of the not is absolutely omical. It Jasln. trans-- 1 be land METHOD OF CURING Results this that sary to the Experiment station, seem to indicate that much seed t should be at the disposal en-i-of is damaged in the harvesting and This will curing methods used. Experiment station for the necessitate cutting at different perduring which experimental at least ten iods and probably the development might be done The land should have an of even new harvesting machinery. SOIL TREATMENT The soil sur3 water right because . certain res of the experimentation vey has shown, as far as it goes, j require water beyond what several types of soil, and whether cessary in order to reach the or not the same, type of cultivation or Wil-Peterso- n, al m , drain-jonditio- ns ALTHOUGH there is no proven absolutely sure remedy there are PREVENTIVE 3 I MEASURES such as or PLOWING under all chaff, pummy, dry barn yard manure, etc., that might possibly harbor the flies. 1. BURNING I i 2. BURNING OFF and (if possible) CULTI-vatin- g all fence rows, ditchbanks, and weed patches where there might be volunteer alfalfa and chalcis fly. I 3. CULTIVATING 4 4 thoroughly. ONLY ONE CROP that is FIRST CROP or second crop to go to seed in any neighborhood. 4. ALLOWING b n 5. I 5 4 b N r.s r: i all alfalfa fields early and PREVENTING ALL VOLUNTEER alfalfa from seeding. DOING these things WILL HELP materially. JT.G. Peppard eed Co. Roosevelt Duchesne Vernal A; |