Show unprecedented demand for hay pasture seed every producer of hay and pasture crops in kane county Is urged u ged to harvest the greatest possible volume of the crop of these seeds to increase the available supply for governmental use and for planting needs in this country according to anson B call jr county agent an international demand and increased domestic requirements for hay and pasture seeds for the production of livestock feed increasing soil productivity carpeting airfields and tor for other military purposes have placed the production and harvesting of these seeds high in the list of wartime farm work ire he explains further that supplies of seed are needed fd large scale plantings in t the he areas regained from the enemy and in allied countries where intensive food production has drastically reduced the amount of land devoted to the growing of seed adequate returns to farmers who cooperate in the seed harvest are provided for by government price support programs through commodity credit corporation po ration loans and purchases reports the county agent the demand for hay and pasture seeds Is so urgent that the inability for a farmer to harvest for the market should not prevent his harvesting at least enough seed for his hi s own use in planting next years crops mr call states lie ire explained that harvesting even one acre of alfalfa seed in addition to a farmers own needs would provide enough seed at the average yield of two bushels bushel s per acre to plant eight to ten acres of alfalfa in a liberated area in the war zone however Iro wever the county agent warned that both the value ind and the amount of hay and pasture seed deed gleaned in farm harvesting will depend upon the ti time me of cutting and the careful hand ling of the cut plants before they are threshed further information on harvesting of hay and pasture seed can be abt obtained aln from the local county agents 0 office |