Show WATCH VATCH THE BURS SET ON ONBy ONBy ONny By ny O. O II H. Wilkinson Your second cutting alfalfa has started to put on seed burs now It gives me a n great deal of personal personal personal per per- pleasure and sa satisfaction to tobe tobe tobe be able to say this Most of you ou who read this know that the company I represent used to pay payout payout payout out from to per year for seed grown here During Duling the last few years ears we have learned the thc principal causes causes causes caus caus- es of seed crop failures so that we could tell teU growers how to guard against them or Tarnish bugs have been the principal principal principal prin prin- cipal cause of loss of crops This season ason many of you have taken precautions and now have fields that are arc practically free from these bugs Some of you received a blessing blessing blessing bless bless- ing which you probably did not appreciate at the thc time Weevil ate off the tender parts of your first cutting ha hay and forced you jOU to cut it at a season when many of the bug eggs were tak tak- en off wi with th the hay and the young bugs that had hatched were left without food or shelter so that they died or moved away Consequently practically all the thc blossoming second cutting alfalfa alfalfa al al- falfa falta that I have seen in the last four days is setting on seed burs now The short tough stuff is farther ahead Some of the big rank growing stuff is getting a good start A few fields are too dry and should be ed Give all of it a n. chance to tomake tomake make malte you a money Crop There will be no carryover of 1937 alfalfa seed by the time the new crop is harvested The AAA AkA pays the farmers for planting planting planting plant plant- ing alfalfa seed Watch Vatch the burs set on |