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Show SEED INVESTMENT NETS HUGE PROFIT SEVENTEEN ACRES WILL BRING FARMER THOUSAND DOLLARS The growing of Grimm alfalfa seed will net C. G. Haskell a thousand dollars on seventeen acres of land this year. Mr. Haskell, well known South Milford Mil-ford farmer and seed buyer, dropped in this week to whip the editor on general principles but by an adroit switching of the conversation to alfalfa, al-falfa, he was diverted from his purpose. pur-pose. Of the seventeen acres sown to alfalfa, at least a third was practically practic-ally barren, so the proceeds really came from about twelve acres, Mr. Haskell said. This is clear profit, as his cutting of hay will take care of the cost of his seed and threshing. Others in the valley did not have this good luck, he said, with seed yields generally being a little less than last year. Leroy Lukin got a little more this year, but further south the yield was poor. In all, Mr. Haskell has 200 acres of alfalfa land near Milford. On the seventeen mentioned he got twenty-five twenty-five bags of one hnudred and fifty pounds. Seed last year brought 26 cents, but he thinks it will be a little higher this year due to a falling off in yield. The southwest valley of Utah, down through Delta into Milford valley produces about twenty-five per cent of the United States supply of alfalfa seed, Mr. Haskell stated. This valley is the best location for growing al-flafa al-flafa in the world, he said. |