Show GROW GROV YOURSELF A SEED CROP By Br C. C II H. Wilkinson Your alfalfa can make seed if you have fairly deep soil to hoi hold the moisture and if you ou have a fair stand of healthy alfalfa Your seed crop will depend upon upon upon up up- on what you do and when anc and how you OU do it Right now mos most Uintah Basin alfalfa fields are badly infested with weevil tarnish tarnish tarnish tar tar- nish bugs and aphis In some fields the hay crop is not as good goodnow goodnow goodnow now as ns it was a few days ago Cut your our hay now while it is still good ha hay and save what you rou have Be sure to cut clean You will take tale off the unhatched eggs of these Insects in the tte hay men to a shallow dr dry dust mulch Use some such tool as ns spike to tooth th Swedish harrow brush drag or wire drag A few layers of woven woven woven en wire fence under your spike tooth harrow makes a good im im- It should not go deep What you want is to make hot dry dust and clear the field of shade and feed for the insects The direct rays of the summer sun will kill them in just a few minutes Keep your field bare for fora a week eek after cutting Kill the weeds while you are about it and have ha ve a clean field Let your second crop alfalfa take lake its time to start You want it to come slowly and make short tough weedy stems These will produce buds and blossoms soon after they get above the ground and the blossoms will set burrs very er soon after that Your crop will seed from the ground up as it grows It will not strip because of weather changes hanges Aphis and Tarnish bugs do not like this tough woody alfalfa Poison your grasshoppers befOre before before be be- fore they leave the hatching ground I |