Show Seed Selection is Important Factor For Good Crops By ELMi ELMER i LIND I IFor For the growing season of 1937 moisture for spring panting and water yater for earls summer irrigation will not be obstacles to hinder planting To County a harvest cannot be had without considerable studs stud and research for tor good food seed Producing valuable crops with with- without without out cooperatIng with science in inthe inthe inthe the securing of good seed is as impossible possible hn-possible Im- Im Impossible possible as it Is to bring forth a crop of horses In one that for for- formerly formerly for formerly sear ear from the Ca use Ca-use merly roamed our ranges range To begin with good seed cannot be had unless we e are willing to pay the price The day of or what ye we commonly term cheap seed Ls Is gone Ione forever Owing O to the wide distribution of noxious weeds needs and the demand by the consumer for somethIng oetter the production of good seed will confine contine Itself to cal those effort willing to make the technIcal technical tOI Because of drought dept I disease eaBe and dishonesty we e will find difficult in securing the kind of seed necessary t Beware yare of or the peddler with cheap seed the I careless indifferent seed dealer with ith noxious habits such as seed blending deceptive labeling oid A planting seed purchased flom any source unless it has ha been inspected by a competent In Secure Cure samples of seed early and for twenty five cents the state department will analyze this for sou vou ou Registered or 01 certified certified fied fled seed with ith seals unbroken inmost in inmost Inmost most cases is safe Make your seed selections early with the question What is 18 L good seed foremost in ins s our mind To consider the selection of good seed mod without considering w weed eed seed would be a mistake It Itis ItIs lis is Import important t that we become acquainted acQuaInted ac- ac with ith the numerous weed eed seeds common to our sources of I weed red Become expert ert q e-q In detecting noi-lous noi nox- nox noxious ious tous woods weeds The names follow Perennial Sow Thistle Morning e Glory Wl Whitetop Quack ack Grass GrassI I Ground Cherry Chem Milk MUk Weed Can Can- Canadian adian adlan 11 Thistle Puncture Vine Russian Knapweed and Burdock I We y will ill be tempted more this season than ever eter before to pur- pur purchASe pur purchase chase cheap seed The g win ill Illustrate the hazards In suc such h r s purchases A certain farmer fanner Purchased alfalfa seed from a n peddler eddler Hn and saved 1 25 on each acre seeded or about S 8 cents per pound What mat mata a saving Let Lets LetB s not close the books book too soon The fOllowing spring there came forth a splendid stand of young alfalfa to compete With morning glory Russian knap eed t l whitetop and with numerous weed At the end of the ir second Ye r this weak neak Inferior seed blen- blen blended I ded resulted In the almost entire we loss of the stand To be bo sure this disaster made the farmer weed conscious and he h de- de decided decided to rid this tills fertile seeded ceded tract of or the noxious weeds sown with the alfalfa The cost was not less than per acre together with the loss of the land for two years ears What rate of Interest to be paid will depend on how long he and his children will live Uve Another farmer purchased Sed seed from this tills same peddler and later becoming suspicious took the seed to his county agent who had hud It analyzed and found It to contain the follow following weed seed for each pound bf alfalfa Ten morning glory three Russion Russian knapweed g 9 dodder eleven whitetop thirteen salt nIt bush six sh sl Russian th thistle tle and nineteen pl pieces at foreign stance following Good seed mus musty have the th follow follow- ing tug First in selecting seeds to be planted In a given eiven locality wilt it willit be adapted to the soil soU altitude length of season and humidity Second good seed must be true to variety Lets Let's pause and ask ast ourselves How long can seed be expected expected- to remain pure How liow many seasons have elapsed since the original seed was certified as pure Third good seed must be high in vitality resistant to smut rust rustand rustand rustand and other diseases common to the th variety If It Is grain train the ability to grow without lodging Is important Import imPOrt- Important imPOrtant ant and possibly the most mast Import import- Important important Important ant of all aU seeds must carry a high percentage of ot germination Fourth free from foreign mat mat- mat ter matter and weed seeds with emphasis on noxious weeds Will your harvest be unmarketable unmarketable unmarketable able and Inferior interior In iii quality Will WUl it pay for the effort Will WUl It pay you OU a net return |