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Show F. 0. UINTAH COUNTY FARM BUREAU THED0RE LUNDBERG, First Vrcc-Prcsid- j. J0HNS0N. President ct N. LYBBERT, Senary J. INTENSIVE PRODUCTION OP GRIMM, COSSACK AND. HARDINGER VARIETIES Op THE HARDY ALFALFA Tell Us Where They Are EMPTY ICE CREAM FREEZERS Are There Any Around Your BROTHERS j QUALITY SERVICE STATION Utah r f . ., All Rubber Goods .. - ' Vulcanizing TIRES and TUBES Free Crank Case Service 0. H. JOHNSTUN - Owner GAS, OIL, FOR RELIABLE USED CARS See Allan IS! kl M We Stand for the Boys and Girls Club Work This week we are ing $100.00 prizes to ners in Club projects. Creamery VERNAL, UTAH f1 e a!-fal- fa CALDER i Farm Bureau Meeting at Vernal October 26 Results in Important Session i Home ? Vernal h e withstood more severe attires than art had in Wisconsin. Our alfalfa pases winter temperatures as lowthrough as 20 and 30 below zero without winter killing. Speaking of the rutur? of Hardi-ga- a alfalfa seed in tne basin. Paul Bngham of Myion received a letter from H. C. Rather, secretary-treasurof the Michigan Crop Improvement association. An instance is given of a test made in Idaho where Grimm yielded 5 bushels per acre and Hardigan 16. Our results here in Michigan have been quite similar in so far as seed production is concerned, while Hardigan is also somewhat better for ferage production, it will not be many seasons before :we will have several car. loads of Hardigan available in tnis state, and this year we expect somewhere between half a million and a million pounds of Michigan grown seed, mostly Grimm, which our farmers so greatly prefer over common alfalfa. Mr. Rather states that Hardigan iwill retail at 50 cents a pound or more again this year. Mr. Brigham has about 140 acres sowrn on the South Myton bench and estimates that three acres will yield about twelve bushels per acre this year. r, i OR Pa i.i and the big demand which is felt A meeting of the Uintah county fcr this type cf seed. This seed farm bureau was held in Vernal on can be raised successfully here in Oct. 26. Many important matters the basin and thousands of acres relative to better marketing condiare now producing splendid crops of tions and rural betterment were brought up and discussed and more choice seeds. especially was much time spent on A communication from L. F. Gra-bethe subject of marketing turkeys professor of Agronomy of the and other produce this fall. A committee was appointed to orUniversity of Wisconsin, to Cashier ganize a junior farm bureau where J. A. Cheney of the Uintah State the younger agriculturists could disBank, referring to the hardiness of cuss their problems and work in harthe Utah alfalfa seed, says: Win. mony with other rural organizations. ter killing is a serious problem in The question of conducting a wfnter Wisconsin and causes heavy losses course of instruction for farm man. in our alfalfa acreage about every agement at the Uintah high school was brought up and arrangements three years. The result of our exmade to carry cut a course cf this perimental work in reference to the nature. hardiness of common comparative In order that turkeys may be realfalfa and some of our principal and graded at marketing ceived seed growing areas dndicjates the time a committee was appointed to need of hardy seed in many places, look after this matter. It was anespecially where permanence is denounced at the meeting that the sired. boxes in which the turkeys were to We wis.h, however, that all combe packed were already at Price and mon seed from, our state had that would be brought to Vernal in time degree of hardines which we find in for fall shipments. such varieties as the Grimm. HardiA committee consisting of the ness in alfalfa is essential for our in $1.00 for 2 years sub- presidents of the farm bureau loSend state and instead of Utah producing to THE UINTAH BASIN cals was appointed to work with the such a big surplus of common al- scription FARMER and receive Star Com- state tax association for the adjustfalfa seed, we hope some day that Can bination ment and reduction of taxes. Opener Free. your state mill have available in large quantities alfalfa seed with a hardiness in "Wisconsin equal to that of the dependable Grimmi al- ifalfa seed such as we receive from Idaho and other states. Hardy va9 rieties like Grimm and Cossack command a very handsome premium for seed, which should justify western growers in making progress with these strains. I think this situation as to the value of hardiness in alfalfa applies not only to Wisconsin, but to- most states in the northeastern section of the United States where this crop is rapidly increasing in acreage. In Bulletin No. 374, March. 1925, issued by the Agricultural Experidistributment. station of the University of re. Wisconsin, Mr. Graber spates, winin of alfalfa seed garding hardy strains The vahardy for a lasting stand: rieties are high priced and caution may well be used to secure the hardiest strains of carefully and ofUnless the ficially certified seed. to condition in produce a soil is stand .with a reasonable degree of certainty, it may be wise to use northern common ,the cheaper seed Southern grown seed. grown New To encourage excellence from, such states as Arizona, has Utah even produced Mexico and in the work of the men stands very sensitive to Wisconsin winter weather. and women of tomorUndoubtedly Mr. Graber did not Basin row is an opportunity get samples of our Uintah not does seed and as the bulletin we cannot afford to state what part of Utah this seed came from and we are confident neglect. Uintah that it was not fromof the hardier the seeds The Basin. in Uintah type now being grown he-s- SEND THEM BACK j VkMdent er SEED. Mach interest is being taken in alfalfa seed by the hardier types Uintah Basin seed producers. This is a result of the high prices which are paid for the better grade seed CHELSYrLL 0 Wisconsin Calling for Hardier Alfalfa Seed From Uintah Basin URGE A. Chevrolet Co. Cars in good mechanical condition ot jrom 4 75 to $350 151 inn I m ion VERNAL, UTAH |