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Show County Agent's Column Need for Clean Seed No weed control program can be effective unless every farmer and every seed dealer is weed conscious. consci-ous. No seed should be sold or planted which has any chance of being infested with noxious weed seed. Before buying seed be sure you. know the origin of the seed; the variety you are planting. Insist In-sist on a statement of purity and germination. You cannot afford to harvest a half crop because you didn't have good seed to start with. Seed trucked into the state or seed offered for sale must comply with the state seed law. This law requests the name of the variety, percentage of germination and the percentage of inert matter. Seed offered for sale mustn't have in excess of one per cent weed seed and must be free of noxious weed seed. Any seed grain brought into the county to be cleaned and offered for sale must first have the county coun-ty inspector check it. Such seed should first be placed under quarantine quar-antine until it complies with the law. Cleaning should be done under un-der the direct supervision of the inspector. Any farmer may question the qualifications of seed offered for sale. He has a right to report the same seed to the inspector who may draw a sample and send to the state seed laboratory. Under the laws of the state there is no reason for any farmer to plant poor seed. Barley and spring wheat seed are available. Get what you need as soon as possible. Get your corn seed bought now. Beef and Feed Supply Do you remember the drought of 1934 and the cattle buying program pro-gram of that year? There were more cattle in the U. S. than feed to take care of them. We had 74,-000,000 74,-000,000 head of cattle when the drought hit the western ranges. The government had to come to the aid of the livestock men and buy thousands of head of cattle. Even in our own county more than 13,000 head were bought. Today we have even a larger number, 82,000,000 head. Feed supplies sup-plies are not large enough to take care of the increase in livestock. Thirty-two to 34 million head of cattle need to go to market in 1944 if number of cattle and feed are brought into balance. Every livestock owner must face the problem of balancing numbers with his own feed supply. Now is the time to inventory your own business and determine if you need to cut numbers while prices are good. Inferior animals should go to market. Don't hold more than you can feed thinking that neighbors may cut heavily and you may get some additional profit by holding on. The future of the livestock business busi-ness depends on keeping numbers in balance with feed supplies. Feed Crop Needed You farmers have been asked to produce almost beyond ability with the limited labor and machinery supply. Did you take into consideration your land and water conditions; your labor and machinery supply? Did you consider the number of livestock you owned and the need to produce adequate feed? The first consideration of those who have livestock is to produce the feed to take care of them. Farmers who don't have livestock should give consideration to producing pro-ducing the crops that will be directly di-rectly used for human consumption. consump-tion. What have you decided to plant to increase your feed supply. If you live in the mountain towns have you considered oats, barley, rve or Sudan grass in the thin alfalfa al-falfa stands? Have you thought of using the surplus high water' on land you can quickly prepare for corn or sorghum? Corn or sorghum planted in Mayor May-or up to June 1st on ground properly prop-erly prepared and irrigated prior to planting will produce an abundance abund-ance of feed without additional irrigation ir-rigation water. If you are short of good alfalfa land "but need feed you can produce pro-duce more hay per acre and hay of better qualiy with a mixture of field peas and oals. Such a crop should be planted at the rate of |