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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER PAGE 5 Associated Beehive Seed Growers of The Uintah Basin July, 15 1926. THE PRICE OF ALFALFA SEED Every practical alfalfa seed 'Tower is a business man trying to make money. He needs to be able to look ahead and say, I should have so many pounds of alfalfa seed worth so much per pound which means that my crop should bring me so much money this The season is rapidly approaching when he can begin to fall. forecast the yield of his crop from what he has seen in previous years. However, the price he is to receive is not so apparent. We are frequently asked What is seed going to be worth this faU? Frankly, we do not know. This company has always tried to confine its price forecasts to figures that it was actually willing to contract to pay for alfalfa seed of a given quality at a We can only say, THE PRICE WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND. stated time. Then you want to say, What about this DEMAND business anyway? What does it mean? and SUPPLY The SUPPLY means just what is says but it says a lot. supply of Alfalfa Seed when harvest time comes around will be made up of three parts. 1. THE CABBY OVER, 2. The 102G crop, and 3. The im- ports1 Although there was a very considerable amount of 1925 seed carried past the spring planting season, it was at least partly beThis company is now cause of unfavorable weather conditions. making a campaiTi to encourage fall planting. The Carryover into fall cannot be estimated until fall planting is past. It is really to early to estimate the 1926 crop. Indications are for a big one. The seed imported wiU come under the new staining law. It is yet to be seen how it will work but it will no doubt keep oat a lot of seed and discourage the use of some impoiteJ aiiu.hu. Lj Now what about the DEMAND? How much alxahu seed of stxd does the United States plant in a year? Does uc ! make and difference and if so what kind has the suougcot (Rm.aia Both production and consumption cf aiiaha sed nn.e increased so rauidly during the past live years that it is almosi loi impossible to name a figure that couid be considered noinnu vt-inot bten eitner. The past two spring planting seasons luive favorable. No one can say how much would be piamtd in a favorable season. One thing, however, is very appaient. The strongest demand is for very hieh quality sced.Sceu ti known liaruy origin wit and. a high percentage high purity and no weeds or sweet clover of high colored viable seeds. The sentiment is time OiLlY inis BEST is GOOD ENOUGH. Buyers do not want poor seed because wee y the farmers who are going to plant it do not want pool hay. because It is still too early to begin to forecast seed prices ie u 1. We cannot say how much 1925 seed will be cameu into of 1926 2. It is too ear to forecast tiio 1926 crop. o. Imports vn be affected b the new staining law and 4. No one knows much alfalfa seed the United States might plant in. a laioiuO.c season. being equal, high We do know, however, that other things cr i lo-grades. quality seed brings more money than porience in selling seed this spring goei e.n BUYERS MAY TAKB HIGH QUALITY SEED vHEN THEY WILL NOT EEN LOCK Ai the LOU Lit AT ANY PRICE. a busi The Alfalfa Seed Grower must look at his crop from ness point of view if he is to make money. He can make very little money producing a crop that must sell on the bargain counter to get a buyer at aU. He loses money if he produces a crop that he cannot sell. WHAT KIND OF ALFALFA SEED ARE WE PRODUCING? must always ask ourselves that question but we should study it over especiallv in this year of uncertainty. Seed dealers have Practically all of the lower grade seed from the 1925 crop still on hand with money invested in it. They do not know when they will get to sell it. Naturallv. they feel that no matter what they bought it for, THEY PAID TOO MUCH because they cannot et this mone back. We Are you producing some more cf that same kind What kind are you growing? Roguing out the scattered stuff and mowing the mixed for hay will help to keep your crop clean. It will make a lot of difference in the price you get for your crop and it may make the The only difdifference between selling it and keeping it. ference in the cost of your crop will be the cost of cleaning up your fields. It costs just as much to harvest and thresh a weedy cron as to cut and thresh a clean one, doesnt it? This is a good time to give a little special consideration to jellow and white sweet clover. In the soring of 1925 the water The fall hay Lad been dry became into the ditches late. fore. Conseouently the clover ripening on the ditch banks was not washed out during the fall but lay in the ditches all winter. We all grabbed all we could get of that first water and we all got a Ion; cf sweet clover on our fields. This is the second year and it is going to bloom and seed and hurt our alfalfa unless we u.i u our. Yellow Sweet (hover is especially hard to get out of the fields because it seeds so close to the ground. But, to come back to the quality of our seed crops. We have liaruy ah'ai'u or it would not grow where it does. We usually ha.e plenty of sunshine to mature it pioperly and give it a good comr. Cur part is to have it free from weeds so that it will be to just a iittie better than any other alfalfa and we will be able sell our crops and make money when seed growers in other have to quit. There isnt much question about selling good seed for a fair price. OUR FIELD SERVICE IS AVAILABLE Mr. Amos Maxfield and Mr. Rich Cropper are back with us aaiu. We are at your service as always and will get aroundcorn-to see you bye and bye anyway but if you have a water turn in' up or any other special problem do not hesitate to call on us. We like it. Try to let us know about two days ahead so we can be sure to get to you in time. There is auite a lot cf water just now it seems. It is too bid to have it go to waste if you need it but may be worse to use us. it if vou do not. ..We are here to help you. Call on ISITORS I ROM COLORADO headed by Mr. Kidder, cf the Colo-i-d- o party cf Colorado men, A"rica turn1 Extension Seivice, spent Monday and Tuesday this vmk in the Basin studying alfalfa seed growing as we do could not stay longer. They said they were sorry they A Li. of ic Osset Company pp&ro Vernal rasMi stuff? You can easily et an idea on the purity. You know it, if your field is sprinkled with white or yellow clover, or foxtail millet, or mustard or dock, or any other weed that cannot be removed in cleaning and you will soon be able to see the large dodders if they are in vour field, too. lYArvric Duchesne of Roosevelt TtW EOT 310 2 Ph |