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Show ftLFALf ft SEEO " - :i-AROUND :i-AROUND OASIS : Good Crops of Alfalfa Seed Raited. This Year Around Oasis and Deseret Nearly every farmer around Oaslx raisea more or less alfalfa seed, and the crop is seldom a failure. It waa a partial failure laat yeur because rrost came unusually early in September, and thla blackened the seed from the second crop. Those who got seed from the first crop got good aeed. The season thla year was very favorable for seed, as the frost did not come till after cutting the crop. Just why It should not be uniformly good every year no one can explain. Sometimes the burrs fall off, or are blasted, so ft good crop cannot be depended upon every year. Rut with a good crop and good prices alfalfa seed la ft mortgage lifter. J. C. Hawley rarely falls In getting a good crop and thla year he harvested 15.000 pounds of good seed. This year N. P. Jensen raised the banner crop, his returns being about 25,000 pounds of cleaned seed. Marcus Skeema harvested 10,000 pounds, as did Henry Huff. P. M. Anderson got 2,400 pounds from his land, about half of it coming from a field that was planted In the spring ot 1912. Antone Anderson got 8,000 and Nets Anderson 4,000 pounds. A. C. Chrlstensen harvested B.000 pounds, some of It coming from land that had been raising seed and hay for 17 years. Rut he believes that alfalfa should not be cropped more than aeven or eight years, and that a much better return will be had If the field Is then turned under and aeeded anew. John Styler haa found tweet clover I easier to raise and more profitable than . ftlfftlfarneyl'H'wllingroVln"'saTt 1 mrx-' mrx-' grass land where alfalfa cannot be i raised. ' He believes If farmers would i turn under clover It would Improve the land much quicker than alfalfa. It does not require aa much water and makes from four to five tons of good hay to the acre the first year, while alfalfa takes two or three years to give such ft yield. Then the seed la more protfitable. He threahed 12,0t pounds of clover seed which commands twice the price of alfalfa aeed thla year. Other ralsera of aeed around Oasis are John Chrlstensen. 10,000 pounds, James Ide, 7.500; Peter Skeems. Peter . Peterson and P. S. Peterson, 5,000 pounds each. Nephl reterson, U. Rutherford and Sam Rutherford, 4,000 pounds each. Nearly all the farmer southwest of Deseret also got good crops of seed. John Rodgers has sold 20,000 pounds and Noah Rodgers 14.000 pounds. Baker, the Crofts and Conks and others had good returns though we were unable to get the amounts. Henry Huff and Dan Rlack are the only buyera and they have each ablp-ped ablp-ped several cars and more has been ' contrseted for. The farmers are die-appointed die-appointed In the price thla year, aa It 1 is only bringing seven and one-half and 1 eight cents per pound. The low price ' Is explained by the fact that this year Kansas and Nebraska ralaed good crops., which Is unusual. The farm-era farm-era have to clean all their aeed with ft fanning mill by band and are anxloua for the Farmers' Union to put up that , seed-cleaning plant It will sure be , In operation for next season's crop. |