Show UINTAH BASIN ALFALFA SEED POOL MARKETED Pounds Purchased by P Pcp Pcp- eP pard O Company of Kansas City p for tor Eight and Thirteen e Cents Per Pound I IThe I 4 The Uintah basin alfalfa seed r pounds pooled some time ago has at last found a market at 8 cents a pound for the poorer gradek grade k and thirteen cents for the best grade The purchase was made by the Peppard Pep- Pep i p parch pard rd Seed company of Kansas City o There was raised In the Uintah fi basin last year pounds of seed Eight hundred thousand f pounds has bas been marketed up up tox to x date The demand for clover see seed r. r has been very slow Just at this time a few otters offers are coming in r. r The latest Is 1 from a firm In Detroit and the he price Is about four lour and arid a half cents net r I The Uintah basin alfalfa fa seed was yas in inn the state pool which totaled 1 1 r pounds I In speaking of the the sale the Salt Lake Tribune of nf sunday Sunday Sun sun- un- un day said k J The Thee successful mark mark tin ln o of more than pounds o of Utah alfalfa alfalfa fa ta seed pooled by farmers of the state the largest single consignment consign consign- V ment of seed ever sold by grower to distributor in the United States Stales was announced yesterday yesterday- by the seed marketing association of the Utah State Farm bureau Together with prior individual sales the cooperative cooperative cooperative tive marketing association has now v- v 7 disposed of approximately pounds of alfalfa seed representing a I i r- r a valuation of about The plan followed in the pool in involved involved involved in- in the use of warehouse receipts against the seed delivered to the theli Salt Lake warehouse as the basis f for advances made to the growers bya by a number of Salt SaIt Lake and outside banks which financed the undertaking ing ng The method Is similar in its general outlines to the procedure followed elsewhere in applying the provisions of the federal warehousing ing lag act Growers Financed Consummation of the transaction 1 will mean an immediate further cash return which will be welcome to the growers at the present time especially especial especial- ly in view of their requirements for financing their 1921 production ao- ao cording to N. N L L. Peterson chairman of the executive committee of the as- as Announcement of the plan by I which all the alfalfa seed left in the pool has been disposed of in this one record-breaking record transaction will be made mado to each individual grower who ho association ina In Ina Ina was was a member of the a letter now being sent from the headquarters of f the pool and of the fate farm rm bureau McCornick I building Officers of f the association report that on a final cleanup the I growers will w n receive the highest price that has prevailed for the past I nine months for a like quality of seed market conditions considered The facility facUlty with which seed can be prepared for market when handled handled han han- died through a pool is demonstrated officers of the association say by the fact that within one w week ek practically all of the big consignment involved in the final deal totaling more than pounds has been loaded loaded and is now moving east The seed was delivered in carload lots to the associations association's warehouse where on arrival it was sorted and graded Shipments Moved l Rapidly Twelve cars including more than pounds of graded seed were l loaded ded and moving two pays days before the details of the final safe final sate sale had been agreed upon The necessity for the organization of some plan for orderly marketing I of the alfalfa and clover seed produced produced pro pro- in this state originated originated last fall about the time the 1920 crop was being harvested While the movement originated in Millard county the largest seed-producing seed b section of the state Carbon Emery Duchesne and other counties where also represented in the tho marketing pool The seed marketing association association the tho Utah tion was formed through State farm bureau with N. N L. L Peterson Peterson Peterson Peter Peter- son J. J W. W Burnham and L. L D D. Young as members of the tho exe executive committee Dean F. F Peterson was engaged as sales sates manager J J i I t- t y r EL- EL |