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Show Devoted, to tne Progress & Development g? Agriculture in t(ie Qreat Uintah Basin VOL. III. VERNAL, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, JANUARY, 1926. NO. 1. UINTAH BASIN SEED GAMS WORLDS RECOGNITION Alfalfa Seed Reputation of State Reaches High Place in Land . I-8rt ksom ' f V ') Wv ' W XJMK s'Wt sys ' ' vsV- UU.- -x vy. n ' kw v c 3v 4 K 'iI I r ' vfeK& k- 15 i !MxyxK I T f I .&X A wf Jjs 1 1 $ x" JK ,, v,w 4 .. j8 sA "n4 I t , ' r V OX ' fcwfc v, .. -'- Yt'SSX vaV, t' ' Mtk . ' , '' vwX k.VS Ws.vN V"S8888jj!iSB?S33i 'V svCA.A,NXAA'Ns'Xs wssssvA AsAssAsn Ci A,a,i ,y, iyA .X-pv- .y. N. Speaking of the remarkable showing Utah made at the International Seed show and the Uintah Basin taking 10 of the 13 prizes awarded to Utah the Salt Lake Tribune says: ; Hay and Grain show Utah has every justification in continuing to call I the Mention of the alfalfa grower of the world at large to the fact at the 1923 show she captured tliir-tee-n out of the fifteen awards offered in the alfalfa seed, open class, which makes her nearer than any Even after 1926, Utah may conother state has ever been to the banner seed producing state of the nation. tinue, for this year, the first year at the International, has given Utah such encouragement she will enter her finest seeds every year in the future and by entering she may hold her top position. Alfalfa seed growing in Utah has been on a big scale since 1919. This season approximately 65,000 acres of the total 400,000 acres planted to alfalfa was cut for sped. This acreage devoted to seed was distributed among 1600 fanners and' their total production was 22,500,000 pounds, or nearly half the entire volume of alfalfa seed used in the United States. The majority of Utah alfalfa growers specialize in the common variety, but this year about 9800 acres were planted to Grimm alfalfa, a hardier variety, and of this total approximately 6000 acres was of a quality sufficiently high to command certification by the state seed laboratory. In 1919 the total production of alfalfa seed in Utah was but 3,250,000 pounds. The records for succeeding years follow: In 192Q, 5,280,000 pounds; 1921, 5,280,000 pounds; 1922, 11,000,000 pounds ; 1923, 14,000,000 pounds; 1924f 19,000,000 pounds. Acreage devoted to Grimm is circulated as follows: 1922, 600 acres; 1923, acres; 1924, 3900 acres; 1925, 6070 acres. Next year, according to a placard appearing in the above exhibit, Utah hopes to raise the Grimm alfalfa acreage to 12,000. d of Utahs Grimm alfalfa bearing land is in isolated valleys, where no other alApproximately falfa plants have ever been grown, which assures a superior quality through freedom from all plant diseases. Dr. George Stewart, agronomist at the agricultural college, who had charge of the exhibit, believes it was one of the most cons'tructive movements ever undertaken by Utah. 1 NTILithe 1926 International 1,-1- one-tliir- 00 |