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Show Gardeners Seek Aid Selecting Vegetables Experiencing difficulty selecting vegetable varieties for your garden this year? You may be surprised to learn over 50 retail com panies have seed catalogs in the United States offering thousands of varieties for sale. Dr. Alvin R. Hamson. extension horticulturist! requiring reasonably short or moderate seasons lot InOur maturing. termountain area with harsh, dry climate and extremes of temperature make this necessary. This area is sufficiently different from most other areas of the United States that varieties and hybrids adapted for growth there likely will not do well here, Hamson said. Utah State University, cautions some company indicate percatalogs formance capability beyond capacity of the variety described. Fortunately, many are careful to give only factual descriptions. Realize in selecting vegetables you must limit your selection to varieties More Feed Mold Prompts Caution More mold than usual in livestock feed has resulted from the extra moisture received this year. Farmers question whether the moldy feed should be fed to their livestock. Dr. Melvin J. Anderson, animal scientist at Utah State University, cites the following items listed by Kansas State University to be considered in making that decision: 1. Note apparent kind of spoilage (yeast, blight or mold). 2. Determine extent of spoilage. If less than 10 percent, its chancy, if percent, its definitely risky. If over 50 percent, it should be discarded and plowed under. 3. Consider age and species of livestock to be fed. Remember the young are most adversely affected and developing embryos of breeding animals can be endangered. 4. Evaluate your willingness to chance toxic effects on your livestock. 5. Estimate value of the questionable feedstuff minus the possible detrimental effects as compared to cost of good feedstuffs. 6. If you suspect presence of poisons, send a sample to a commercial laboratory for analysis or go back to point 10-5- 0 4. Anderson says mold growth reduces the feed value of feedstuffs since it consumes nutrients available in the material. feed species very low levels of aflotoxin have triggered growth of malignant tumors in the livers. Aflotoxin consumed by animals will deposit in tissues and milk to become present in the human food supply. To protect humans and animals, the Food and Drug Administration allows no detectable amount (zero tolerance) of it in food or feeds. New Pasture Grass For Spring Bastion, a new tetraploid perennial ryegrass, will be introduced this spring by Germains Seeds, a century old western seed firm, located at Fresno, Calif. This was ryegrass developed especially for planting in pasture grass mixtures. Two of the basic objectives in the breeding blueprint for this new variety included high yield potential and dry matter values. Agronomists refer to Bastion as a tretraplid variety. Ths means the plants have twice the As examples, varieties of broccoli and cauliflower adapted to growing in California simply would not form heads if grown in Utah, similarly, tomatoes adapted to the southern areas of the U.S. mature most of their for more than one year. Such fruit later than when Utah has exDerienced talltrosts. Hamson advises that youi comparisons are being made each year in vegetable trials at the USU Horticultural Farm at Farmington. on how and hybrids perform in the Intermountain area including Idaho, Utah, Southern western Wyoming, Eastern Nevada, and Colorado. Watch for valid comparisons made between a number of varieties grown at a given location under as uniform condition as possible. Also, seek information vegetable varieties Hamson since varieties respond differently to different and weather patterns tremes encountered acknowledges experienced gardners tend to be reluctant to change from varieties they know from past experience to be good until they are convinced something else is better. Yet it would be a slow process indeed to evaluate the thousands of available vegetable varieties by trial and error experience, and is not possible to determine the performance of a vegetable variety by looking at the ex- in successive seasons, Hamson says look for comparisons seed. TW Model No No UMC 50, Utah State University, Logan and from local county extension Payment! Interest! Due Until January 1983 - TRACTOR INDUSTRIAL Will Receive a FREE 2-Wh- - LOADER eel - BACKH0E 445 - 755 Drive 1100 Series Tractor! Buy a Ford Wheel Loader Tractor 62 Models A64 A66 Receive a 1983 Ford Ranger Pickup excellent palatability. Since you can readily see and smell mold, it usually and exhibits winter haisnt difficult to detect. Also, rdiness practically throughout the Northwest most animals will refuse and Intermountain states. if moldy feedstuffs enough The new other feed is available. tetraploid perennial ryegrss exhibits Of more concern are the early seedling vigor and mold poisons (mycotozins) extremely strong second that can be produced under year growth. Under proper certain mold growth conmanagement Bastion conditions. Aflotoxin, possesses long term persidered the most potent sistence. mycotoxin, arouses greatest Bastions broad, dark-tonefear. The Kansas report succulent leaves have indicates reduced growth efproven very palatable to feed reduced rate, livestock. The plants have a lowered producficiency high degree of tolerance to tion, and lowered resistance rust and other comparable to diseases and parasites are disease. And recovery after usual symptoms resulting is cutting some In quite rapid. from aflotoxin. Varieties For Utah. It is available from the Bulletin Room, and Above perennial range of growing conditions. Bastion is a true perennial directed specifically to Utah gardners contained in the USU Extension publication EC 313, Growing Vegetables-Recommende- d Tractors, 100 H.P. This trait ryegrasses. provides extremely high yield potential, larger and more succulent leaves and Additionally, tetraplid perennial ryegrases are highly adaptable to a wide available Buy Our 3 & 4 Cylinder Tractors and Get a Factory Allowance, Effective Thru June 30, 1982 number of chromosomes of regular Most gardners rely heavily on the word of the sales person, the picture and information printed on the seed or the packet descriptions and pictures in the seed catalogs. 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