| Show 1 r ALFALFA SE SEED D SLOWER THAN X L LAST l of alfalfa seed ails been slower flower er than last year due clue in pa part t to later nt r harvesting arv sUn and threshing fI in ill inmany I many Important producing districts districts- The U U. S S. S o Bure Bureau u of of Agricultural l Economics e estimates that ap approximately approximately roxi 30 per cent of or the crop crop f had l left the ha hands ds of of- or growers up to Oc October tober fober IS 18 which Is the tho of ot movement movement as two years j years ago but is below last year when 4 40 per cent was ivas vas vas' moved ar i corresponding corre- corre ci date ie lit Itt g general eral growers I sold sol sold fore freely than last year year but il Jn iii so some se sections fI ns espe especially tally lallY where the crop was vas vas much smaller I than a l last st year yea they hey have been e l in in- in hold clin to hold for for or higher prices prices The l h highest hest average prices I for I l alfalfa on October 1 8 wore offered d in in 1 1 I South Dakota Dakota- 17 1725 and iu ill t iID Montana 1626 and 1 ild the w st prices prices-in prices in New Mexico 1 ami J 25 I J l L'- L' JET Texas lexas 12 1240 40 f Prices r ore higher I in ll some ome ol le districts s but H tJ lower i in l if a about as many others a an l h e 1425 4 45 5 pcr per er TOO POUl pounds S basis clean n for or the die the s amo same as Ia last last t year compared kv v ith 1530 two years age ago ig In Lu l tits tho largest st alfalfa ra prod producing tC liis mostly 25 25 25 to to 28 was as I I f n |
