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Show THE UINTAH BASTS PARMER PAGE 5 emce June lt 1926. Associated Beehive Seed Growers of The Uintah Basin Some More About Second Cutting Alfalfa For Seed Just a month ago we tried to ve you the main arguments Of course the for and against second cutting alfalfa for seed. main question you want answered is WILL MY. ALFALPA SEED ME MORE MONEY IN A YEAR IP I TAKE A CUTTING OP HAY AND RUN SECOND CROP POR SEED OR IP I RUN THE. FIRST GROWTH POR SEED ? We like to borrow before the seed crop is at least in sight? be obliging and we hate to say NO to our friends but we just cant put out any money until the crop is in the burr. MATTE If you can raise just as much seed from the second cutting s of a ton of hay per acre it and get half a ton or looks as if the hay is additional income from your land and labor, mat-to- n doesnt it? Then if you can convert the hay into beef, or and wool, or butterfat, and thereby get paid for more cf If more income. your time and other crops, that may be still a weekly you feed it to dairy cows, you can make it bring you cream check a pay day every week. Then if yc can kill some of the weeds by cultivating after seed crop will be free you take off the first cutting so that your and from weeds and therefore high purity and of a higher grade worth more money per pound, you will be making some money The 1925 crop was one of the weediest there, too, will you not? Have you noticed how the weeds are startwe have ever had. How can we get rid of them if we allow them ing this season? to mature seed? While you are cutting off the first growth and cultivating effectiveweevil to kill the weeds you will be applying some very WEEVIL DO YOU KNOW THAT WE FIND ENOUGH medicine. WE POUND PEW TO DO SOME DAMAGE THIS YEAR WHERE Then a good stiff cultivaOR NONE AT ALL LAST SEASON? cut m mowing thus tion should tear off the shoots that are not for the early seasdepriving the chalcis fly of a breeding place infested seed left on the on, while at the same time the fly buried up more or less ground from last year will get Do you know of well. so that the flies cannot get out so the chalcis fly? any more promising way to fight cf alfaa is this Have vou noticed how uneven the growth field. What two inches to two feet' high in the same spring-fr-om kind of seed crop can we expect from that? second cutting is worthy In view of all this, it seems that three-fourth- serious consideration, doesnt it? -- iliS itself. Now just a few suggestions on the cutting clean bat if you will see tnat year giovtt is hard to cat Lives are sharp and the guards tight and then run your mower the ground, the guards the points of the guards dip to so that the kniic can cut it clean. will tend to pick up the alfalfa of TZt SOMETHING ABOUT MONEY our readers seeih a little strange to some of Perhaps it may y. especially in this to use this space to talk about money, fanners that into the Uintah Basin we knew s 'i I I I p s s When we came for harvest purposes and we provided usually needed money for We did not expect to finance seed growour contract. that ers Ve pay cash for all the seed we y warehouses or Wo there are three good leDonY0UO: THINK Mks efto tte it?is PAIR for growers to come banks? to us to CROP DIVERSIFICATION Now apropos of money we have hoped, as we paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars every season, to see our friends branch cut with farm flocks cf sheep or dairy herds and dairy barns and feed get themselves into a position to turn the great quantities of The Uintah Basin that they can raise on their farms into cash. is a large and ferile country, adapted to the production of feed The climate is good for livestock. crops as well as alfalfa seed. These other crops need interfere very little with the seed crop. First cutting hay and alfalfa chaff themselves make a lot of feed. well New land going in or old alfalfa being broken up might very for a herd of dairy produce the balance of the feed necessary cows and a weekly cream check would be pretty nice, wouldnt it? countries that It has always been the history of bad years from good years are followed sooner or later by very one-cro- p We have had four good years here in the one cause or another. What would you do if your seed crop failed? Basin. WEED ERADICATION The weed situation apparently does not worry many people The fellow who has them and the fellow in the Uintah Basin. There below him on the ditch seem to be about the only ones. of Most Roosevelt. at was a meeting called for Friday, May 21, ana Mr. and Dye Roosevelt of men those present were business Mr. Perron, the third Duchesne county commisMr. McConkie. sioner was ill and could not come. Those who were present, commissioners, business men, and farmers, were amazed at some of the fields visited and pledged No one knows yet just their support for a fight to the finish. what that may take for it is impossible to say just how widespread these weeds are. They may be on your farm. Could you be sure that they are not? We will be glad to show you specimens of the weeds. Without the cooperation of every farmer they may continue to spread You owe it to yourself and until our seed may be worthless. your community to be at least a scout in this campaign. Mr. Keber J. Webb of the State Department of Agriculture was over most of the infested territory last week and addressed tne priesthood meeting at Roosevelt Saturday, exhibiting speciMr. Webb fears a quarantine. mens of the weeds. The work being done by most of the people whose land is If A few seem to be a little slow. infested is very gratifying. or vou know of anyone who has Russian Knapweed, White Top, Canada Thistle. 'BOUT YOU THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD NEIGHBORLY ACT TO HELP THEM DiG IT UP AND DESTROY 6 53 IT?' To sum up: 1. Second cutting. first cutting seed may be a better money maker than Think it over. feel sure that you will agree that we cannot advance is in sight. money for harvest purposes until the crop of 3 We still believe that the greatest agricultural future seed. this country lies in diversified agriculture along with real4. The weed problem is more serious than most people Are you doing your part? ize. Call on us. We aim to serve you. 2. We J. G. Peppai d Seed Company Vernal Roosevelt Duchesne jjoj |