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Show Devoted, ; to t Re Progress ;l m. i Agriculture in (ic Qre&t Uinbab Basin. EOOSEVELT. DUCHESNE COUNTY, FEW EARLY ; &.Developnent oj Opera Season Opens Up on the Farm SPRING HINTS Some growers and sellers of alfalfa seed seem to feel that because the hard seeds are alive they have the same value when planted in the field as seeds which germinate in. the usual five or six days. A large amount of work with a. view of ascertaining the true value of such hard seeds has been carried on in recent years. For the past three years Dr. David Schmidt has devoted his entire time to the study of hard seeds in various legumes. In a report on his work to date given before the Association of Official Seed Analysts on December 31 he sums up the value of hard seed in alfalfa somewhat as follows: The result of field trials indicates that if alfalfa seed is sown late in the or very early in the fall, thus being exposed to freezspring, The barns and corrals should be tiroughly cleaned, for manure is thi breeding place for flies and 13 are the cause of much disease. T'.ere is need on the farm for every j rand of manure that is produced. Tie farmer can pass on no better heritage than a farm highly fertil-,-i; :.l and well tilled. Take plenty of time to work the rtT well and get a good seed bed. N-crop will do well unless it has & 30d place to grow, and very little can be done to improve soil after the seed is planted. con-Ctis- ns Better do it now. A good cultivation before planting will help to get ahead of the weeds. Treat all perennial weed patches as quarantine eistions plow around them and leave them until the last for special treatment. If they are plowed with tha rest of the land, some parts of mid-wint- er ing and thawing, the germination weed til ta the plants are bound to cling tainly there can be nothing more plow and in this way be important than to get good seed. C gged to other parts of the farm, One bad weed seed in your seed may vri are they will grow and start an-cistart something that will be a task patch of weeds to be fought, for many years to come. r 1 to rob the farmer of his land Hatch chickens as soon as posI Its. The wild morning glory is sible. They do not grow and develc at of the worst weeds we have to as they should when the weather op and you will know where it too warm. There is no profit in L If. you have it on your farm. So is a small poorly developed chicken. eh out for it when you are plow-need a long growing season or for the smallest Capons er f'ht, 1; I .C ! t t ? i cultivating, of root will grow wherever it Is soil and moisture. If there is ada thistle, white top or Russian p weed growing on the farm, same as j should be treatedWethewill have morning glory. 9 to say about weeds later on this precaution now, will go a way toward keeping these Is confined to limited areas on farm. ant good clean seed. All the ration that can be done will lake a crop if poor seed is used, igements should be made to i and treat and test all of the that is planted this year. Cer- - 'Q : . r i B. I. C. ANNUAL ELECTION HAECH 29 The annual election of the r, B. I. C. is called for Mon- r, March, 29th at 2:30 p. at the Assembly hall. Ft. hesne. The report of the Itary-treasur- er for the year will also be read. HARD ALFALFA SEED GERMINATE SLOWLY By E. PETERSON. : NO. 5 UTAH, MARCH 15, 1926. start them early. Barred . Plymouth Rocks is the breed for Uinso tah Basin. It is not a good thing to turn Will Resume Work at Experiment Station or the germination of hard seeds is very low. The best results with hard seeds then, would seem to be from planting at a time when such planting is not practiced, that is, before the ground can be which he states that he will be properly worked in the spring. Anback to Ft. Duchesne by the end of na M ..Lute, Colorado State Seed March prepared to continue with the work started last year. The followOgden. The national forest timber ing are some of the experiments to be conducted with respect to alfalfa sale in Utah, although not impressive compared with that of the better forseed production: ested neighboring states, played a big Alkali and special soil treatthe development of the smaller in part ments, Rotation, Row culture, Rate communities remote from railroads, of seeding in drill rows. Timing of forest officials say in the anservice crop or clipping and sheeping off. nual timber sale report. Manuring, Cultural methods. Irrigation, Breeding work and nursery. Variety testing. According to Mr. Carlsons letter, it is the intention of Director WilNO PLACE TJ1TE UINTAH liam Peterson of the Utah AgriculBASIN, SAYS HYTON HAN tural Experiment Station to visit the Basin at least twice during the comS. B. Rush of Myton, who He also states that ing summer. recently returned from Cali- Drs. George Stewart, Agronomist, fornia, was in Roosevelt Mon- and Ira M. Hawley, Entomologist, day. . Mr. Rush says Califor- will be out for a week or so. nia does not compare with the Uintah Basin, as an agricul- Ogden. Construction of the Twenty-fotural country, and says the urth street viaduct extension will Basin land raises more alfalfa be under the point supervision of the per acre with three crops a city and county, it was determined at year than California does with a meeting of the city and county comseven a year. missioners in the office of Mayor Mr. Rush spent the winter George E. Browning. Granting of the there for his health, and., re- - & request of the local authorities to do turns much improved. this has been given by the state road mid-summ- Supt. F. A. Gross of the Indian Agency at Fort Duchesne, is in receipt of a letter from Mr. John W. Carlson, Superintendent of the Uintah Basin Experimental Farm, in stock in the pasture too early in the spring neither for the stock nor the pasture. The wise stockman will keep the stock on dry feed until he is sure that they can get all the green feed they need in the pasture. Many good milk cows and other livestock have been injured by being allowed to enter the pasture too early in the spring. Now is the best time to plan the cropping system for the season. There is danger in going too heavy into one thing. . Plan a system of rotation so that the best use can be made of every part of the farm. We will soon Want some green vegetables, so let us not overlook the need of a small family garden on every farm. Be sure that it is not too large or with one not crop and enough of another. We need to plan our agriculture so that we may have a job on the More farm throughout the year. more more stock, poultry, dairy more do beef cattle will and sheep, commission. this. top-hea- vy of hard seeds of alfalfa is very slight. If sown just after the frost has left the soil a considerable number of the hard seeds of alfalfa will germinate. When sown in late spring er |