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Show TEE UINTAH BASIS FA BITER Make Your Farming Make You Money Alfalfa Seed In 1928 last year a lot when it did not of folks raised or tried to raise alfalfa seed them any money. for the farmer. Combelt farmers get their best grain and corn crops from land that has just been broken out of alfalfa, sweet clover or rad clover. They plant these legumes partly for hay and partly because these crops are soil builders. Farmers on high-price- d land ha7e land the and raise keep up big crops if they are to make money. For six years to our knowledge, a big part of the flour used in the Basin has been shipped! in instead of being grown at borne. raafo Some of these crops were so weedy that they were almost worthless. There was no profit in them for the farmer because he had to pay harvesting and threshing expenses just the same as if the crop had been good. Other crops failed to yield anything to speak of and did not pay expenses. Very often crops that maky? poor yields are also poor quality. Pick Your Seed Acreage Where It Will Make You Money It is not good business to try to raise a seed crop where it is not likely to pay because of poor yield or poor quality. Pick yonr clean land that is otherwise good for seed and go after a hig yield of clean seed.. That will give you a chance to make some on an ordinary yield and a hig profit on a big crop becauseprofit the expense of growing and handling a hig yield of good seed is very tittle norethan the expense of growing and handling a poor yield of poor seed. , te wee7. alfalfa for hay and clean row some gram crops that have a chanceit up or plow to make you ZcL J0JL wm Yo? ace the first cutting right away or on the xed Jour seed yQTl decide 011 irst crop, you will want to hold off your H64 1S tG irrigation as long as you can. K to be second cutt&g you will want to irrigate as soon a crop of hay and have weeds up where you can kill them in mowing or by cultivating between craps S50 mom t Casi thre close. When a 5rebaiIy cost basin farmers sot get when they m,oaey was another cost that cannot seedsman buys weedy seed Tt. AT THE PRESENT PRICE OF WHEAT AND AT THE PRICTRANSACTIONS ON THE BIG FUTURE MARKETS, WHEAT is now high enough and will probably stay high enough that UINTAH BASIN FLOUR COULD BE SHIPPED OUT AT A PROPIT. It should be just as easy to ship Uintah Basin flour out as to ship outside flour in.! At any rate the Basin should raise its own flour. Dairy farmers cannot get bran to feed their cows from our Tfastn milk now. ES INDICATED BY sold estimated at all Oats are usually in demand here during the spring months. the country builds new roads and makes other improvements, this demand is likely to increase. Com is a good crap for some parts of the Basin at least, for As two reasons: First It is usually worth $2.00 per cwt., or more during the winter for sheep feed. At that price it does not tay a very heavy yield to make a good return per acre. S50 to ?ost Basin land j mss a whearfcrSTtw for A horse can do t2wWS" Stocked tJrrV? H2 Nestor. Dairy farmers wherevon faTfa pet " 4 - othfir 2? ? a IoS need - Duchesne it Then after the y r winter feed caa w a ut-- m?e maaey Eaish your seed crap of good quality seed. Break up old al- - y1 sLm BOTSJ smn.2Sl E5J Diversification llicse SaLfJ fields hay. Host likely if they were co they weald for need or tb- cows and horses, much work when he gets eight pounds CoiTL. Will put fat On llVC- - 2 Steva? use toTeVpSn more work requires does all these things and kills a lot of wtjeds. tie fine crop of weeds from it, he is pretty likely n?M? alfalfa or at least Meeds com 1 for Joar cut some ow Then hJw well turkeys and together and how nice it Sto have a ining from some of them just about when you &ake the seed you raise good seed. . SPSS'S, &e . know that tiitv will not do be KIM by ixrigaSJ b??1 aa?a 5615011 ya will dama??they are very bad, be glad to they Roosevelt Vernal |