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Show v THE TTTTTTATI BASIN FABMER PEPPARD SERVICE August 15, 1928. Associated Beehive Seed Growers Of The Uintah Basin t Seventeen Agronomists From Central And Eastern States Visiting Beehive Alfalfa Seed Growing District As we are writing this letter we axe awaiting the arrival of seventeen agronomists, professors and farm advisors, who are traveling from the Central. and Eastern parts of the United States to see how the Associated Beehive Seed Growers raise Bee Hive alfalfa seed. These men arte not seed buyers that will buy your seed crop, or your neighbors direct from your farm, but they are of far more importance to the Associated Bee Hive Seed Growers than if they Would. If these men find that they can honestly recommend Beehive Brand alfalfa seed to the farmers of their respective states, most of the farmers of those states will ask for Bee Hive Alfalfa Seed when they get 'ready to plant alfalfa and they will bn. it and plant it. If a hundred thousand farmers were to buy one 160 pound bag of Bee Hive Brand alfalfa seed each, the total would be sixteen million pounds almost four times as much alfalfa seed as we produced in the Uintah Basin last year. What do a few individual crops amount to when we think of such figures? Some of these men may represent concerns that buy thousands of bags of Bee Hive alfalfa seed at a time not in small lots from individual fanners but cleaned, graded and bulked into big uniform lots ready to sell and to plant. They find that it is more convenient to buy that way and that they can be more sure of buying the quality of seed they want. How these seventeen, men will be here and probably gone again before most of you read this letter. It is too bad, in a way, that many of ns have not yet rogued! the clover and weeds out of our seed fields for this season. We will assure them that it will be done, but just the same, some fields will look like a dirty face in Sunday school. We are a little sorry, too, that the seed crop in the Basin does not promise the yields we sometimes have, because we always like to show our best to visitors. ON THE OTHER HAND it may be a good1 thing fox them to know that we do not always have big crops. We do raise a lot of seed, farmers who need alfalfa hay should buy aud plant more of it because Bee Hive Brand alfalfa may not be easy to get the next year. We are genuinely sorry that we have not had time to notify all the Bee Hive Seed Growers of the Uintah Basin thc these visitors were coming. We are telling those we meet and phoning others so as to spread the news as widely as possible. Business men and farmers from Roosevelt are meeting the train at Price, Monday, August 13, and bringing the party to the basin. The Roosevelt Commercial club will entertain at dinner Monday evening. On Tuesday, visitors and seed! growers will tour the country east of Roosevelt through Ft. Duchesne, Randlett and the Colorado Park and Ouray Valley sections and then to Vernal and Jensen. The Lions club of Vernal will entertain the party Tuesday evening. On Wednesday the party will travel from Vernal to Lapoint, Tridiell and Whiterocks, and back to Roosevelt for lunch at noon. Wednesday afternoon they will visit the Mytou district South Myton bench and Pleasant Valley. and It is to be hoped that despite the short notice many Bee Hive Seed Growers can make the tour. These visitors represent our ultimate customers the fanners who plant the alfalfa seed we grow. We want them to tell us how we can fix it so they wiU like it better. In other words we want to furnish the kind of alfalfa seed, they would like to have. j Moreover, we want them to feel welcome to our country. We are glad that they are sufficiently interested to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to see what we are doing and how we do it and we hope they will come again. CROP CONDITIONS The second crop fields that are not setting on by the middle of this month axe likely to be late and may get caught by frost. If youit alfalfa looks Eke a fair crop of hay and a poor crop of seed or no seed at all yet, it may be best to put it into the haystack and try to make a third cutting of hay A few patches of first cutting are about ready to harvest now. Some of the first cutting is poor some is not worth threshing. Jo Duchesne N x Now that the U. B. I. C. is over and fall will soon be here, is time to mow off the failures and save what we can. It is also high time to rogue out the clover and weeds befc, the seed matures to be harvested with your alfalfa seed or to dr: on the ground and come thicker next year. Lets make sure that this 1928 crop is a high purity crop alfalfa seed. G. Peppard Seed Company Roosevelt Vernal |
