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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER DUCHESNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU j L. E. POTTER. Pres. F. W. J. MEYERS, C. F. WAHllQUIST, Vke-Pre- s. Sec-Trea- ), I s. f (r ! i When answering advertisement tician, show increases from two to please mention THE UINTA three 'times greater than for the en- BASIN FARMER. The outward tire season of 1924. movement of apples, cabbage and torgon matoes up to the date of the survey WE WANT is three times that for the whole of 1924. the statistician figures. The welv apple movement so far has been Write today for Friends carloads, compared with 338 71 carloads last year; cabbages, tem price list and see what carloads, compared with 22 carloads last year, and tomatoes, 1364 Jim and Mack have to say jf ri0 carloads, compared with 380 car. r. c about the fur market. loads last year. Otner farm crops ff'ceys Onions likewise show big increase. CHAS. FRIEND & CO. feI1 a increased from 216 carloads in 1924 sed to 467 carloads this year. Potatoes Inc ' 921 Mazee St., DENVER, COL.J- increased from 727 carloads to 952, carloads and celery from 8 carloads -- 1 oxeld fice of OUR SEED Frank Andrews, Utah statis- ? By L. E. Potter, President Duchesne County Farm Bureau COYOTES Utah has the distinction of be- plied artificially. Pasturing, culing the largest alfalfa seed producer tivation, and cutting for hay the first in the United States. It has shown growth, enough that the secits quality by holding first place, its ond cropbarely will mature before the ability to resist natural enemies, sefrost of fall, also escape the vere conditions in high altitudes and killing effect of late spring frosts, is an draughty sections, making it a pro- ideal plan. ducer of seed second to none. The of seed culture is Our recent victories won at the not for problem the individual alone to solve International seed show at Chicago, and but a problem for have placed alfalfa seed from our everyaccomplish, farmer in this section, to make state on a plane by itself and bey- a condition that will be for ond question as to its high grade and the whole section. The helpful conditions to 17 carloads. 2 d quality. This position should be the that should be remedied are well 60 For most of these products the n. turning point in the producers posi- known in every seed producing sec- seasons st movement is completed, as tion, to hold and enjoy as to the tion natural condition of climate and One of the most noticeable ex- indicated by the comparison of the December 12 figures of last year soil, and add to it the great commer- amples is that of sowing foul grain with the seasons total. The incial factor, that of quality and quali- with Wong Sing Mercantile seeding, allowing weeds to go creases in Utah are not in keeping ty supreme. to seed, feeding no value seed to the The store with a complete throughout While we enjoy these distinctions be carried back to the seed fields, with conditions a whole. as from line of country Figures and natural advantages, we should weed seed, carried by threshing outall stations the present following Groceries be mindful of the best interest of fits from farm to farm, and the sowand Provisions, Dry (totals: Cabbage, 32,603 carloads, our state and basin. and Goods, Notions, Ladies Producing ing of seed that is not properly reGents Furnishings, Boots and (compared with 41,945 carloads last seed exclusively, tends to crowd out cleaned. year; onions, 22,665 carloads, coim- -i one of cur most profitable industShoes, Furniture, Hardware, Nearly every state has laws regul pared with 30,796 carloads last Sto ves, Ranges, Harness, and of ries, that dairying, in which many ating the per cent of impurities that year; tomatoes, 27,490 carloads, acres of land not suitable for prof- will disqualify seed from being sold. Saddles. le per itable production are good for root It is up to the produced to grow a compared with 26,829 carloads; You will profit by trading r- Tkeys 136.464 carloads, compared crops, corn and pasture. An in- high quality of seed and not run tatoes, here. .tale Pr dustry that furnishes an all year the chance of taking the noxious with 252,562 carloads, and celery, FT. UTAH DUCHESNE, Birds 9 17,213 with carloads, compared occupation for the family and em- weed seed out by recleaning. carloads. ployment for other families, makThe dairying and feeding sections ing a weekly or monthly pay-rol- l, of the east are using alfalfa for their that keeps a community alive. The tui forage crop and are demanding seed Too much praise can not be given jeni loya that will meet their soil and climate Kve j ever; the seed and those who have made requirements. They want pures great its great production a mighty asset bred seed of established merit. The to our basin in time of financial so mi producer should do his best to meet 1!SI F of stress; turning from bulky products that is demand. If we dont, someone !:- Aed that were costly of production and will and t) reap the lasting benefit. little in demand to one that made In these new lAfesale sections just being a yearly cash return; a crop that jpr.J for and are not reclaimed, contaminatthe world wanted and we able to ed, jfcperativi seed should be only pure-bre- d produce. jpplished and used, every be takprecaution Common knowledge of the history en to coition, insure against mixed varieties of one crop farming in the temperi i. many and common. Some few ate zone has been that of failure sections some i I may be able to grow seed to the planter as well as the comhelpless by farming methods, if so profitably mercial interests of those sectipns. : resent a good demand. With the largest crop the Uintah Basin has With that knowledge we believe it has eemmon as at a f; seed has had a standthat only such soils and conditions ardOur is ever year we have on our blackboards the produced that are really fit for seed produc- from place for years to come and at 'lays it has come some of our pure tion, should be used, and the same bred seeds alfalfa r seed following Ashley prices today: by natural selection, a I looks cauticn in rotation and cultivation .is going ion in our process that be used in seed production, as is t those fields year after year, as we know given other crops for successful re- what our Bures r.l old fields have withstood turns. Quality is only obtained by 1 methoi for eighteen and twenty years. To careful cultivation and attention, as tcsssfully a rule; as many factors are con- plow up those old fields is to destroy M ,! grading our mother have been plants that cerned in producing quality seed, as ( to give supplying our superior seed for the also' other crops. brs that market for years. If it was not Soil factors, as to kinds of soil Id of turk in this we climate hardy Would not are not so important as the condihave the perfect stand we have at law pooi tion of the soil. fer th In average years the first blooms present. Only the fittest survives w in nature. they are damaged by hot weather conbed only A few words on marketing has a ditions which usually last from ten i 'which to fifteen days. This fault is some- vital place in connection with qualas ids times corrected by pasturing very ity production, not only for a better ws they and stable price but also for the closely until May 20 or June tenth, b perfect: and in some cases as late as July protection of the grower of quality b"er, kne first. After which, as thorough ir- seed. To market his own seed with 'si weigh s rigation as the individual soil in a positive guarantee that his seed cr six po Most soils gets to the planter without being question will permit. 1 s e poun on the heavy bench ground need but mixed with other seeds, to raise their PI result one. watering after pasturing, while purity and germinating tests to "a t a great heavy impervious soils need many higher standard. 1 were' bre turns of water. Government bulletin information, Y ry low. We find that no fixed rules can modified to your section of I country I be, a: be adheared to in relation to irrigat- and changed methods, when warrantto 18 ce t ing, as different soils require dif- ed, with the many helpful attenhad ferent methods of watering and the tions and care, should bring a perj rly fatte individual grower must meet that manent demand for the finished prot ht 31 c It the soil will not duct. a lasting and stable market, tun requirement. t ! net to stand watering the second time, and and success to the planter i,r other co m the field has been partially watered, bikeys thi it is better to make a new ditch Farm f ; In, pay! on Increase Exports above the part not watered.- One tyj b bad an idea seems quite prevalent, that Shows for 1925 Report for evei during drought years, or during a Duchesne Roosevelt They g Vernal shortage of water supply, 'more secUp to December 12 this year agstunt. tions show a tendency to greater ricultural 11 of export for figures Utah, seed production. 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