Show SUGGESTS PREPARING FIELOS FOR OR SEED IN BEGINNING OF 01 YEAR ba C 11 II 1111 kinson nature endowed millard county with soil and climate especially a darted for the production of alfalfa seed there Is no other district of its size in the entire world which has produced as much seed of hardy al talta falfa in a single year for many years it was so easy to produce big crops of alfalfa seed here that good seed crops were tak en as a matter of course like the air we breathe or the water we drink then there came some years ahn most alfalfa did not produce good profitable yields but even in these years there have been pretty good crops right along somewhere in the lacounty farmers who glow alfalfa seed hai e a lot of other things to do and to think about during the growing season they are likely to see what they can do in a hurry and miss see ing even more important things that are not so conspicuous after that even though they do a lot of really serious thinking they are likely to arrive at wrong conclusions therefore it is only natural al taa very unfortunate that many people believe that growing a good crop of alfalfa seed Is more a matter of luck than a matter of good man argement the writer has spent about halt half of each of the last sixteen years in the alfalfa fields observing and study ing what happened to the alfalfa and what the alfalfa did after it happen ed before that he had spent some years and taken a couple of eity sity degrees in agronomy so that he started these alfalfa seed studies with training in soil and plant science nature provided alfalfa with tain characteristics habits and in cli nations which determine what it will do under any set of circum stan cese and conditions the greatest difficulty in finding oi out what altal ta fa seed is going to do at a given given time time Is determining what all the condl eions are that are likely to affect the plants and then giving these condl eions the consideration to which they are entitled because of their rela atye importance for instance alfalfa lives over from year to year what you did to your alfalfa field last year will have some effect on the crop you harvest this tall fall what you do to it this spring will have a still mose dimmed late effect or a particular sort of weather encourages the development and spread of leaf spot diseases that will cause most of the blossoms to strip oft off and some of the seed that does form to be blighted or shrunk eu en seed growers need to know more about the nature of alfalfa and the ways in which alfalfa Is affected by the things that may happen to it then they need to adopt practices that will aid the alfalfa in making sed and at the same time guard against the inroads of insects and diseases last year 1937 the millard coan ty alfalfa seed crop brought around 00 it if every acre that was T la narves arvest ced ed for seed bad had yielded as much m uch as the he average of ue tae ten tell best rut chopa out of each hundred there vai d have been twive as much seed and A twice as much money maybe even more that ia is to think about the fellows who had the poor crops bad had about the same kind of land and vete tie T tiey ie had about the same weather they irrigated and cut and threse thres hed elied almost the same as il lows who lad the good mon ey ay making crops yet the dif difference ferene elwee ahat they did and what tha fellows with the good crops Q d made a difference of 25 to 50 a ai i V a e to i e belloi s vavao grew the good crops it is possible to double alfalfa seed r ii i billiard millard county with out increasing the acreage it if all the seed growers will learn to do the dight thing at the right time ail do them the right time Is becot the tho crop starts going bad and the right thing tb do then may b ent from tae thing that may look juke like tho the right thing at the k A time tv the c crop rop is going to pieces in on back lage page |