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Show The following is condensed from a report written by Mr. Beck, Superintendent of the Twin Falls Demonstration Farm, from data obtained from a number num-ber of seed growers. On the Twin Falls Tract in 1915 there was harvested for seed, about 572 acres of white clover, 16,892 acres of red clover and 9,995 acres of -alsike clover. The average type of soil was a medium clay. The length of the growing season in 1915 was 144 days. White clover - 5.5 to 8.0 bu. Red clover - - 4.5 to 9.0 bu. Alsike clover - 7.9 to 16.6 bu. Prices were high, as is indicated indicat-ed by the following prices per bu. for the cleaned seed: White clover - $19.80 to $21.60 Red clover - 9.15 to 12.00 Alsike clover - fi.90to 8.70 After the cost of growing, harvesting and threshing was deducted the returns per acre ranged as follows: White clover - $94 to $168 Red clover - - T53 to 78 Alsike clover - 20 to 120 Seed Production The following from the Rupert (Idaho) Pioneer Record shows some very handsome returns from the growing of clover seeds. The Intermountain, antf especially espe-cially Idaho, is becoming famous for the production of various seed crops and the production of sugar seed ia now being successfully success-fully experimented with, |