| Show A ON THE OLD PRICE ROAD aiom a hoot hor flog or dle tion to prosperity and plenty Is IN title tale of albert sweet clover seed Is the surest and most profitable crop the farmer of the uintah basin can produce says albert Rasmus seii of ft duchesne who was on a business busi neus trip to vernal wednesday mr not only produces a vast amount of seed himself but buys the bulk of the seed in the eastern portion of the former reservation for years and yeara albert was it a freighter on tho the old price road as many of the old timers will remember al says bays that while lie never went hungry at the freighting business it was a root hog or die proposition and lie he was getting older every lay day with no better prospects in sight lie ile finally came to the conclusion that it if other people could make a living on a farm that he could so it he leased an indian gridlan allotment grain he could raise the same as an other farmers but it did not always meet inept with reidy sale so he decided to get out of tile tho rut and produce mouthing some mom thing that all the other farmers were not producing ile he read lu in an eastern farm paper of the production of sweet clover seed and of its value and here was an id idea e a for him the ditch banks and waste place on the indian bench were cov ered with a rank growth of sweet clover hundreds of dollars of seed sead going to waste that no one claimed and were not trying to balse in ill fact it was considered a nul nuisance annee and disgrace an Q the owner of ahn land lie he started in by experimenting on oil saying saving some seed on waste land and planted twenty acres for this act of folly he be was lepri reprimanded and flever by the indian agent but nevertheless the first year lie he shipped thirty sacks of sped seed met with ready salo main and net him over front from that time hejmar he has been ing the production every year and the seed produce by his neighbors and IR in on the road to pros proa perit mr says he can call show one land that had gone bad with mineral from too much irrigation that Is being reclaimed by sweet clover and at the sump same time in producing seed to the value of over CO 50 an acre right here the writer would like to call attention to the pasture of the uintah railway company in the north part of vernal this field was always wet at the present time it is covered with a dense growth of clover on which horses have pastured all summer and yet it Is in fairly loaded with seed |
