Show untested seeds bring weed fields instead of crops to two utah farmers agricultural officials are laying heavy tress stress on the necessity for testing all seeds planted this spring I 1 tu t insure against the harvest ot of a bountiful weed wood crop several cases have arisen in the state which are cited by the a state tate department depart meat ot of agriculture to i allus irate the importance of 1 dying 1 gain am plea pies ot of seeds submitted for germination a d purity ats a A robinson Hobl district agrical tural inspector for or millard county writing state inspector 11 2 webb estimated that dodder alone coata costs the millard county seed grower thousands ot of dollars each year ore tarm farm was wait inspected last list all fall at time for or alfalfa geed seed the alfalfa was infested with the dodder weed and the production was less than four bushels per acre more than 30 20 per cent ot of this seed was found to be dodder due to the impurity and inferior interior grade because of the dodder infestation the grower received only rubout 5 cents a pound tor for the seed at a conservative estimate based on 03 the aidrie at erase yield la in this thia section the returns from this plot of alfalfa were oaly only it pw per eat oat ot of what they have been boom la in 9 dodder free roe inspector roblean warn all farm armors in millard county that dodder ta A S threading proa d ing fast and will infelt ev field cold if not checked another example recently corn com lax jug to the attention ot of the department was in a case hero where ten bushels of alfalfa feed read were seeded la in the early spring the bed wax vas la in excellent condition and every factor indicated it bood growth should tollo tollos s within 20 day days the wanter bexan began to realize that bl his alfalfa crop WAS ai not developing develop inc ae as it should ai as almost 1 every variety ol 01 weed sp p pelted A ample sample of the iced seed was nib emitted to an analyst and it a wis found to contain 43 90 veed weed seeds to the pound the planting of this eed seed at 16 pound pounds per acre woula yield 4 weeds on each square rod aud and little room wag was lett for the alfalfa growth the leed seed wa was found to germinate only 46 per cent the p anter suffered euffe red four ways losing the drice price of the eed seed the use of the land until the weeds could be removed the lor loas ot of the time taken in planting the crop and the lose loss of time which it would take to remove the weeds and replant the land in some productive crop send samples of all seeds to the department of agriculture for tooting if it you would retain the fields tree free from weeds and would prevent the spread of the weed pests said mr webb in the example examples cited the cases case may have been somewhat severe but the lesson Is plain to the gricol tur alist st that be must make aura ure ot of the seed he Is planting tbs abs A a |