| Show a seed failures caused by rain on bloom by cecil wilkinson basin man ager ol 01 the J 0 peppard seed co this article Is a synopsis of an article that appeared to in the bait salt lako lake tribune on monday february 3 2 1931 entitled SEED FAILURES LAID TO ro RAIN review ot of r data indicates precipitation in time causes loss I 1 for flor the last to years tho the alfalfa peed crops of utah have lime dropped so low that tl it c may bo be called failures icila kin the b ed men ot of the whole country a na v ell ns as the local agri and seed CITo growers ners are what mint has happened to utah d from itom the proud position ot of uie tile alfalfa teed prodoc in 01 ti both in total yield and in alch lei I 1 p r acro 0 atall lias ims slipped ali Piled do to to ao ninth place in 1925 utah prcy ic ir d 43 41 per cent of the gotai atif f ed d crop of the tile nation in 19 hi produced only shout 5 pr i about 3 ODO pound round for the uto as a bhole in 1030 1930 filp 1913 crop brought the utah aled K cd the 1930 croo cron brought ices than 00 or a decline in five sea fon eom of in the annual income from seed the laribe 1025 10 5 crop was no doubt the result of extremely favorably conditions tile email small crops of reent t ii airs are no doubt tho the result cf of unfavorable conditions in millard county some attribute the failure to the dr alriage system but thil crop lias has failed also at where there was no drainage system soil enil from continuous cropp s g has also been suggested but ma u fielda hate have falch as mell as old ones ewh cu h doers have hae caused some in jury in places but they have haie not beer agenw al aphis has come in for a lot of blam in thi delta se etlan etl airn rn but field nt at If ilford were ere not infested gnp BS eta much as the delta field viere yet they failed just ahn awe the ne plant butt bug like the nihls has not been generally num to all the alm the chalets fly injures tho tile seed reed after it Is formed most of the pre bent VAR due to the bloon blown bloo n fal fallert lirt without setting seed teed therefore the fly did not cause the failure that diseases caus ed cd the trouble because thero there has urn no preat increase in disease notice it if the trouble ere caused b 1 I insect or diseases the yields lae been less uniform over the state KI ret ras ing io bo bu hide ilide the trouble is state wide therefore the cause may be due to wea ahr conditions because these are the only which can change eh ange quiche a large area and be somewhat uniform it lias has u bean generally recognized for some tim that rain during blooming tune time nhen followed by ho hot sunshine 1011 cause stripping f the alfalfa blooms I 1 cecil alter in charge of the tile IT U 5 S weather bur 0 atu office in salt like city end ind I 1 rank andrews statistician for thy the united stites depart anent of culture at salt late lal e have data datt relating to to climate nd yields an 1 prices of aa 1 fht P ff 4 f alp vears can between bet woon W f ia coriat sive to bo be used th h 1 parison on rison aie latt I 1 u two t V 0 weed i f r I 1 IV and ali ohp ft airy r two t 1 we 1 of A rust were taken aa as tw t le birl r r fa despret oa city PULP milford cestr ced tr ct ctr pa twan 1 monton thoele tooele 1 du IOU i h I 1 no al ta enri myton nil 1 7 tah va h n d for 33 blackfoot Bleck lAcki foot bot ida in 0 lalar rd twin raw all gal in id n rn parin of etab yields for th C belts a ae e i to ani belve with E M nc mt nt t il d more rainfall during b V aming t i for the past wt evin va v n ohp 0 failure or near fi I 1 aurto tl fo the previous five years inic win a R falfa seed crops were rod the av aar r e r 11 for the tile blooming ion on nt at ail uuie ata hinr f r r wt nt two enra wae was ne ly tl ti t 13 ra much as the average for the five good years yea also the average for the two t 0 bad scars during the season was almost one sixth of liae total average annual rainfall for those years the average annual tor for bad vears sears was as about the fiame to about one tenth more than it was for the year years in other words rainfall duriac the blooming season was the main bauc of the loss loza in the uintah basin they let some ome first tint cutting and come tome second cutting go to seed teed thus eroding ep tho the blooming period over oer a longer eaon this accounts for the fact tint the basin ande about 25 per ent of a crop in these the years while villard and beaver deaver counties mad mildo abelt 5 per cent and iron county made about 15 per cent 0 a crop 01 matte conditions and allowing ifalia to bloom our a longer enables tile uintah basin to mke more seed on oll poor years than the va western estern counties do but it ilso keeps the basin from malting making tho the the average fields secured I 1 in n ho he it western estern counties in good years when tre tle rainfall and seed yield om parison of the past been re en vears 5 li 11 extended to idaho conditions tere lust just opposite idaho has had two 0 of tho the best cropf she has ever produced irod in these two tuo penson just aft the rainfall during the period there was A as remark laly lower it was aas in utah dur ng the same periods another feature of the rains dur ng the blooming period of the wd nd years in utah was that veo ver ew large rains were ere recorded vater fell as small frequent show en md ind there were many days aher the recorders t down doun only a race of ram rain A trace of rain car ctr do much injury it was tas the fre of the as well vell as a th mont of wetness that caused the iff if a burrs to fall to set dieso show allow quite that the greater part if the loss of utah kalfa alfalfa see ans As die dle to rains during tle t looming time this should relieve i from much I 1 w orry and let us that we e have hac the same old eed ramblers chance rf making a rop that we ue used to have hae in deciding how much alfalfa to cave eave for seed we must remember hat tint summer rains may fall during the fact that there has been the greatest known drouth over ea eaf f and that we me have had lad summer nis rt is in utah during he last two season seasons shows that we ire in out of te tho ordinary times is far as weather goes at the same time we e should also demember em ember that after the precipitation has been very high or very lent ight for several sears there Is a trong tend enc to return to nor nal inal if there is anything in the dea that changes in climate come in n cycles of seven ear ears ate 0 should won ionn move out of these present p besent coni binns and again mako make gcoy alfalfa aerl crops io 10 try to get an fin idea of the fre queeny mith alth which failures may ome ollie due to rains in blooming spa sea son data on the rainfall during thi berlo A as corn com I 1 led for as far hack back as records lime been kept by those these in the light if lit of allures 17 one and sm ell tenths arlies of rainfall at this time tine u as taken ns as dangerous dan crouss to seed prodie alon these records worn wern studies ti idles for villi on orl dp eret and I 1 up tb s lils li 1 ls 15 fillmor Vill mor nn rin ape let t I 1 cr er rr er ps in thirty seare S ears or n ft of one every four and a in tr milford can expect 11 h f 11 ires irps in twenty two eurs or nr HP P etera four nwe on tour four tenth ear cm cill expect thre poor ra ili fn thirty fie me vears or an nv iv arn r of ono on P r ery 0 ven arid jav tv I v 1 ears the thee the e adl sti alt 4 0 bf be taken to indicate 1 tn U tills 11 enni lection it chodd she ld be kopd id tant 1 berrt berot with ta abc relm tim cd ed proS ble number rf cf fillipps fill rs irps 11 ll only one in nim t tn arc P ae 1 ears has been the tile greatt st sl 1 clr I 1 P pro ducly z area in thi th united stat q the yields tharp I 1 A f P aper v ry rv large deseret which the wi weather a r show to I 1 me e had the no to produce big rp 1 and lot of them has tins actually grown gronin the seed in it considering the mme dita d tta for milford back to 1900 alid for iiii 1 more back to 1803 1893 the grouping of fi arn I 1 I 1 airs was st studied tidied mil fn fairis rd in two ears has had f of two tao had years earli 1 f tr ind c I 1 period r t ew jear it when hen the 1111 fall during timp time wa I 1 itic bo I 1 and possibly dinger danger 0 tillmore hid ene ne two mir par and no fo to r icar scar poor deser id only one poo alch abich IE is lt l t two tu 0 ara ears I 1 lost tot of ahl pool poor vii hae lime been ot of only efto icara arf duration pr are r III n f i epli in the he fare arc of iacre ased pro micton th alfain seed marbet i he tn a little higher in 1930 than 11 ita W thi this as largely dup du to ht hi increased demand e T p m t ed to nip me fora f I ora orn the lemons taught t a ug ht by h great drouth of 1930 when rhe the farmers from cikota tn to virgin la 13 and from NOT ner york to texas wid w I 1 alatka alf iffa bright and green ln making good ields in ill spite ot of hp droth alle mam other crop vl re failures it as the best beat rm ethl vind of for alf alfil nd alfalfa seed tl 71 e effect shot id bf w n larro demand for aeed seed for it biting I during I 1 when be ue onn consider sider hat list his hap hip belled to prices of othar farm crop nd rid the law large crop of alfalfa M 1 1 n non ov n in the united in 1830 1930 it t la is gratifying to see set prices of 1 alta seed stay up ln L n later rte of 1 yield yields in ecklon where here little or no altalo seed is 1 duall grown have not lowered the orice estly 11 we should all ahaas lins remember that ho hil states east of the rocky moun bains are lv too vet met to produce eed d and that their average lie sic ds ar or far lar below ours the price of alfalfa hav in those states Is so 80 much greater than in ours hat that they hae t lore temptation to raise haftl ha and only go for an A n conditions are extremely fao favorable rable also we are far from market and mutt mu tt ship our farm form prod products in the mot most sa liable arm nich ruch ae as meat butt r egg eggs and 2nd vialta eed if vae re nimber these things alone along with ith the facts that th demand for alfalfa seed in 1931 should be good that v vet et condi tiri will currly ply in due time return to he the astern stat tata 3 and that our recent rainy barons during the blooming patr s ere afat so ex tremell e the normal t that h they vi ill seldom comp come igean wo we will br bo encouraged to WD parts of our fields for alfalfa wd seed and to increate increase this acreage as A nc e find conditions coming bacic back to normal i |
