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Show . High Winds Cause Extensive Damage Mlfalfa Seed I The high winds of last Friday , damaged the west Millard alfal a seed crop over the entire area. An average estimate is that losses to the farmers were one third of the yield they had expected. Neither frost nor aphids could have done the damage that one day's gale did. The wind had a velocity of 55 miles per hour, though it seemed twice that as cut seed was whirled and beat out. Tree limbs were blown down, power lines down, phone lines down. The most extensive damage was down in fields where the seed was cut in windrows. Some fields Saturday Sat-urday looked as though they had been swept with a broom. Fields where the seed was in piles were not so badly scattered, unless there were weeds. Then the light piles sailed in the air. Thousands of dollars were lost as the storm raged all day. One farmer estimates a loss of $10,000, while many confess to 1 to 3 thousand dollars loss. One farmer expected to thresh 300 bags, and got 100. Others are in the same proportion. The weather the entire month of September has been ideal, for ripening seed and threshing. The night before the fateful storm, thf minimum temperature at Deseret was 56. Friday night, following the day's buffeting, the temperature went to 33 at Deseret, and was slightly higher in other areas. ' Since the storm, the weathe has again been fine. Frost came t the night of Oct. 1, temperature of 22, a drop of 11 degrees from the night before. But the damage was then done. The last weather forecast from the Weather Bureau was Oct. 3. but by that time no one was interested. inter-ested. Instead they were wondering wonder-ing just how far their seed had blown. |