Show utah furnishes 40 per cont of seed used by U S ac cording to U A 0 expert dr george stewart agronomist of the state agricultural college in a bulletin just published states that the normal requirement ot at the entire united states in alfalfa beed seed arnu amounts an to to from fifty to fifty fire live millions of pounds annually and that the state of 11 1 ah anh normally about 40 per lent tent of this froin 80 tot to 90 per cent ct of all the alfalfa seed produced in the united states Is grown in eleven areas three area areas of intense production are in utah two in idaho and one in arizona since production ot at alfalfa seed need growing varley varies widely it Is inevitable that years of plenty alternate ith years of scarcity in year years of scarcity there la is some importation por tation of alfalfa seed from argentina turkestan Turk estan and itlay the imported seed in bi very unreliable it winter kills badly in the corn belt and farther south it ie Is not probable that with many acres added to the alfalfa eed sead grow ang g arena areas of utah an over production izon will result with consequent |