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Show BIG ALFALFA SEED CROP HEREIN SIGHT What bids fair to be the biggest alfalfa seed crop ever harvested in Milford Valley if just maturing; A few days more and all danger will be past and the harvest commenced. The outlook is surely encouraging, as every farmer who has tried the seed proposition his year, reports that the, seed burrs are plentiful and full of plump seed. The crop is ripening rip-ening rapidly and conservative men place the yield as being way above anything in past years. While the prices offered are not big, the large yield will bring the Milford farmers a nice sum of ready money, estimated, at. from $100,000 to $150,000. One man estimates that his crop of seed, at 12 cents per pound will biding him more" money than he offered of-fered to sell his whole farm for last winter, and now he says: "I will have 1he price of the farm and the farm besides, as a result of one short season't work. I am glad I did not succeed in selling. "- There is no crop raised in the valley val-ley which takes Jess effort or brings more ready money than a crop of Alfalfa seed. |