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Show COUNTY SEED CROP BRINGS THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ONE-FOURTH CROP ACCOUNT OF DROUTH With the seed season about over, a comprehensive report on Beaver county's production was given before the Lions club Wednesday by C. G. Haskell, seed buyer. Five cars were shipped from Milford, two of them being bought from farmers in the Beaver bottoms, of 213 bags each. The other three cars contained 708 bags. The total shipments from this county were 170,961 pounds- This is practically all of the seed grown in Beaver county. It brought prices up to 19 cents for common and 30 cents for Grimm, as threshed. For cleaned seed, the prices were a cent or two higher. . -l."-,'. Our farmers received from Mr. Haskell Has-kell the sum of $35,720 for their seed. It was sent to Milwaukee. The Beaver Beav-er bottoms brought $11,556 to seed growers. Beaver county's crop was only about one-fourth it should have been, due to drouth. Millard county's crop is estimated at about the same fraction. frac-tion. Iron county has about from one-third one-third to one-half a crop. Frosts held off down their a little longer than in this district. |