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Show tub FDTJAH PAGE EIGHT BAgiy FAISSSS I ft PEP PA I I t April 15, 1927. Associated Beehive Seed Growers of the Uintah Basin. i i Have you ever seen better crops at this time of year? prospects i stuff into money that has no real market value. The manure is i needed by the soil and they find that their crops yield better than before. The cream checks come regularly and keep the living expenses paid right up to date. 'A few farmers are mfaking a success by feeding ewe lambs through the winter, shearing them and selling the yearlings to i Here again, they feed' up go back on the range in the spring. turn into on and it farm the what grows money with a chance for some profit. Good old ewes fed through the winter nroduce both lambs and clean up a lot of feed stuff. wool and Several formers are keeping small bands of sheep on their iarms. If they have some rough or waste land for summer pasture and a supply of water these do pretty well, too. Poultry and hogs frequently make good money if they are well taken care of. The trucking facilities that have come to be j" in the past three of four years make a far better market for these I j.. products. . All these livestock give the farmer a market for some of his crops right at home. He can grow com, oats, barley, potatoes, and hay and feed them right on the ground. Some of these crops can be taken care of at times when he would otherwise be idle, j Cows and sheep will clean up a lot of stuff, that he raises wheth-e- r he wants to or not, such as pummy, straw, hay too weedy for seed and so on. for all Uintah Basin i f I What are yon going 'to grow on yonr farm to take the best most money this year advantage of the season and make the and maybe in future years ? This problem, it seems to ns, is especially serious for the seed grower. In spite of the short crop here in the Uintah Basin the Alfalfa Seed crop for the United States as a whole was United States practically as large in 196 as it was in 1925. The acreages of alfalfa and Department of Agriculture says that sweet clover for seed should not be increased in 1927. What are the Alfalfa Seed Growers of the Basin going to do about it? If a farmer can make more money from his land and labor by raising some other crop or crops, there is no question but that he should raise those crops in preference to seed. There are some districts in the Basin where seed growing does not pay, even with the prices of the past two years. On the other hand, there are farmers who have exceptionally good seed land who can make mote money growing seed at ten cents a pound clean than they can on any other crop 'at fair prices. If they can get a little money out of first crop hay, pum-metc., they can grow seed even more cheaply. These men cannot afford to quit unless the price of seed goes very low. Then there are others farmers who raise soine seed, grain, some hay and feed, milk some cows, feed some sheep or pi"s and raise some seed. Their other crops and livestock make the living and the seed check comes in handy toi pay taxes, start the children to school, and so on. But if the seed crop fails or the pric.es should go away down, these folks can go right along anyway. Which one of these groups do you belong in? I . li ( y, The big question for all the groups is What can we dd to make more money, improve otur farms, and get more out of life? Many Uintah Basin farmers have found that they can make a good income by feeding and milking a herd of dairy cows. They can grow all their feed right at home. The cows turn a lot of Of course, we are in the seed business. We do not advise to you quit grctwing seed, We want you to grow seed if you can make money at it. We aim to be broad enough to want to see you make money whether you raise 'seed or not. ALFALFA STTn As we said above, there have been two big alfalfa seed crops in the last two years. With a big supply of seed the market is bound to demand high quality, especially high purity. Mixed and weedy seed will be hard to sell. This stuff should go into the haystacks. . Big yields per acre pay best. Grimm Alfalfa is becoming more popular. in the seed plant- ing districts. H you have a clean piece of ten acres or more good land with no alfalfa on it we would like to talk to you about putting it into Grimm. We believe we can show you how it should make yc fa more money than common. We paid one man over $500.00 last fall for the seed from about eight acres planted in 1925. Not bad for the second year, was it? If you figure on Grimm be sure that any grain you sow on the land is absolutely free frotm alfalfa. We advise also that you inoculate your Grimm alfalfa seed with HUMOGERM. It will cost you only about ten cents an acre. It may make the difference between a good, stand with a profitable crop the second year and a complete failure. CAREYS WESTERN AT, HALT GRASS A few years ago, Mr. Duchesne James E. L. Carey of Fruitland, ; j i r l ; ' too. ( t I some grass starting to grow in an alkali swamp. It grew thicker and made a sod. The cattle seemed to like it. He began to study this grass. j ! j He found that it thrived in strong alkali. It made a good winter pasture for horses and cattle. In order to study it further and give other farmers a chance to grow something on their alkali land, he let it grow up and go to seed last year. It grew almost three feet high. He cut some for hay but faded to save most of it for seed. - There was considerable difficulty and a lot of expense with the ithreshing because the seed is fine and light. We had more rouble when it came to cleaning for the- - same reason. NOW HE IS OFFERING a limited quantity seed FOR SALE HERE at 'the following prices : 1 saw Found $2.00 5 Founds 3 Founds Ft of recleaned $50 $9.00 Roosevelt Uintah Basin Industrial Convention, s They are usually cleaner - - GRIMM ALFALFA I i Vernal Duchesne, August 3, 4 and 5, 1927. ! : ) |