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Show Storms Hold Up Harvest o Beets, Seed Threshing I Three-Fourths of Beets One-Fourth of Seed Is Out j The recent series of storms have . brought to a halt the harvesting of beets, which is estimated at 34 of the crop still in the fields, and the threshing of seed, which is estimated esti-mated at 1,000,000 pounds still in the fields or in the stack. The storms have continued so long that most farmers expect it will be spring before the crops can be finally fin-ally harvested. Seedmen estimate that 3,500,000 pounds of alfalfa seed has been threshed and placed In storage. Some of this has been sold, but the major part -of it is still up for sale, with market very inactive at this time. They estimate that if the seed can not be threshed until next spring it will result in a loss of a-bout a-bout $100,000 to the farmers in the price of seed and the subsidy. The beet crop will suffer a considerable consider-able loss also. The first storms came some time ago and the largest resulted in a-bout a-bout 3 14 inches of rainfall. Since then storms have come at intervals inter-vals at about the time the ground can be worked for beets, but not dry enough to thresh seed. Water users will have little to fear of the coming season as there will be ample water in Sevier storage, stor-age, and the mountain towns here have benefited greatly by the large amount of moisture and snow laid down during this fall. On Nov. 9 the Sevier bridge reservoir stood at 66.3 feet which is high for this time of the year. Rains have also brought to an end the use of water around here and this extra will be stored. In fact some water has been run to waste from the Gunnison bend reservoir as it has reached ' too high a point for safety. |
