Show d quality seed Is needed in utah production of quality seed in utah is wing encouraged by the utah state agricultural college ex er tension service and its cooperative agencies as a measure to raise the quality of farm products in the state and increase the farm income As ye sow so shall ye reap is still as much in effect as it was college agronomists affirm it Is generally safer to plant high quality home gwyn grown seed than to rise the unknown quality of imported seed efficient farmers are care ful to tuy buy seed from conscientious and responsible seed growers extensive use of homo home grown seed is 18 prevented by its scarcity this condition la Is unfortunate since 1 if sufficient interest were shown quality seed could be raised in a abundant quantities in utah to sat iffy the noeda needs of state farmers and build up a profitable and extensive seed eked market in other areas in 1037 1637 only two thirds as many seed potatoes were produced in tills this state as will be planted this year there were only id 18 certified wheat growers producing only about 10 per cent of 0 the bushen bushels or of seed wheat needed for i tho the spring and fall plantings less than one per cent of the amount of certified seed oats needed in the state were brown in utah only four men raised rafic seed oats it la is estimated that bushels of seed oats are arc needed bushels of b barley certified fled local growers produced less than two per cent of this necessary birley barley supply less than fifty men raised certified alfalfa seed in 1937 and together they lid did not produce more than one third of that needed in utah this year |