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Show I R PEPPARO VICE Thirty Days More To Finish Your Seed Crop Its hard to realize but by the time you read this it will be has a just about thirty days to the time when the Basin usually frost of some severity. In other words, it is time for us as seed growers to size up our crop prospects with a view to seeing just what we can expect our crops to do in the next thirty days. HOW IS YOUR CROP.? Have you got a good crop of burrs now? If you have you have a fair chance to have your crop ripe by the usual frcst date. If your crop is just now beginning to set on you may get caught by frost. You are gambling FIRST on getting the crop, and SECOND on the frcst coming at least ten days later than it usually does. IN A GENERAL WAY seed growers can figure that it will require FORTY DAYS to mature a crop after it starts to set on in earnest or it will require THIRTY DAYS to mature after a fair crop is set cn. Of course the weather has a lot to do with it but one should keep these figures in mind. PERHAPS WE SHOULD SAY ALSO that if your crop has not yet started to set on, it is a very poor prospect, indeed and we would advise you to cut and stack it. This applies to crops that are still stripping badly. Even poor hay is better than nothing. GRASSHOPPERS i i' Crasshoppers are doing more damage than most people 'realize. It is netting late of course but poison should get some of them,. At least we must keep it in mind to cultivate this fall or next sprinw to destroy the "egrs. VERY FEW FIELDS THAT WERE WETL CUT "T7ATED THIS SPRING HAVE ANY HOPPERS TO SPEAK OF. WEEDS AND CLOVER No seed grower can afford to neglect weeds ard closer much longer infields that he expects to harvest for seed. ' The SWEET CLOVER will be dropping some seed on the ground very soon. It should be carried out of the field when cut. Ul We see a lot of foxtail millett or green foxtail in fields that are usually clean. No doubt the rains have made more of it grow but that does not alter the fact that if it is threshed with your crop some of it is going to be in your seed. DOCK seed is getting ripe now. It will show up too unless it is gotten out before threshing. SUNFLOWERS. ROSIN WEED, POVERTY WEED, LAMBS QUARTERS, MUSTARD and a lot of others can be removed t some extent in cleaning but part of these seeds nearly always stay in. Cleaning seed to remove them is bound to waste som of the alfalfa seed that comes out in the screenings. Cant we save this waste? The safest way on these weeds, as well as the LARGE DODDERS is to cut them out and carry them off the field before you start your seed harvest. If you don't do that, them out of pull the bunches before you stack your crop. On clover especially, don t even stack the bunches that contain clover in the same stack with your good seed. Pulling the clover stalks out of the bunches will leave some clover seed in the alfalfa HIGH Every seed grower wants his crop to bring a good price. I can't bring a high price unless it is hih quality seed and it easy It cannot cont2ir be high quality unless it is HIGH PURITY. be and cf to weeds high purity. speak any Cleaning up your fields may make all the difference fe tween a crop that is salable at a good price and a crop that i hardly saleable at all. MIXED SEED Mixed seed is a drag on any market. It costs money to grra. harvest, and handle it. And it must be sold at a very low pria or no one will buy it at all. It doesnt make any money for ar one. Uintah Basin seed growers should be careful TO HAVE S3 MIXED SEED. THE 1927 SEED MARKET Many growers are asking, What will seed be worth fall ?" Some of them put the "uesticn a little differently and "Will seed be worth anything at all? tha ask, We cannot even guess at a price yet. Neither can we gasa how soon the market will open to absorb any quantity of seed. Crops over a large part of the country are just as late and uncertain as they are here. Then there was a big carryover. A! these matters must settle down to where they can be figured b- efore there is muen market or a stable price. AVOID WASTE SAVE MONEY We want onr seed grower friends to make and save money, 7e would like for them to do it growing seed so that we cu 1 our money handling the seed BUT we are g lad to see them make or save money in any honest wav. If they do and stay hen they may raise seed next year. Many seed crops are practically failures so far as msfa? rnonev is concerned. Growers can AVOID WASTE BY CUTTES the POOR STUFF, the WEEDY STUFF, and the MIXED SHIT while it still has some value for feed. They may save some expense too. Many of us spend a lot of money in harvesting and thresour crops. Of course, seed must be harvested and it must k threshed but some of ns, at least, can get just as good and jud as quick a job for less mcmey by planning the work ahead so thst there will be no breakdowns or so that hired men will not hft 101-Eto wait for instructions, etc. MONEY SAVED that way is EARNED and it is worth one hundred cents on the dollar. Along this line another point. The less money you spend before the seed is actually sold, the more you have to spend after ward. Borrowing money on property weakens the borrower1 ownership in that property. The lender may not want the prop ertv and MOST LIKELY he does not wish to injure the owns but he mav be forced to call the loan to protect other interests an have to sell at a sacrifice. , , PROTECT YOURSELF by o a at harvesting your crop mum of expense especially cash expense. We will be glad to help you decide whether the crop is to ly pay or not. Call on us. hing J. G. Deppard 5eei Duchesne QUALITY Roosevelt Vernal |