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Show Big Acreage of A!fala Seed In Ashley Valley With a whirlwind campaign of two days b'y the Commercial Club on Monday and Tuesday, an acreage of 3,549 acres of alfalfa seed was signed up in Ashley Valley with the J. G Peppard Seed Co. of Kansas City. This amount of seed will insure a field man for Ashley Basin this year. So far in the Uintah Basin there has been 19,581 acres to be put to seed. Ray Bishop will be head field service man in charge of the Basin. Frank Davis, who has had charge of the work for the Peppard Seed Co. is very enthusiastic over the response of the people in the endeavor to raise alfalfa seed in the Basin section and says President L. Peppard will be in the Basin soon and pick a location for the seed cleaning plant, which will probably be in the center of the seed growing sections. In another year, with an increased acreage for seed. Vernal will be assured a cleaning clean-ing plant. Mr. Bishop says in his opinion the Ashley Valley is one of the finest seed growing sections in the state. This industry will be a big help to the farmers for at least part of the hay crop of the valley. There is also a good feed value to the straw after the seed is threshed. No doubt another an-other year will find at least double the acreage of alfalfa, which will grow a seed crop. Every new Industry Indus-try is a help to make us prosperous. The Vernal Express. Mrs. John Bnker and infant daughter daugh-ter returned to Delta last week after n two-months vi it in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Baker was accompanied to Delta Del-ta by her mother, Mrs. H. F. Aller of Rtrhv. Idaho., who has just returned re-turned from the east. Mrs. Aller vis-I vis-I i'ed several days here 'with her son C. H. Aller, and wife. P. Tnwhey of Anaconda stopped off in Delta on his way to Los Angeles An-geles to visit his sister, Mrs. Wm. Olson. Ol-son. Mrs. Earl Wilkinson has her mother mo-ther visiting with her. |