Show advice given G i ve n to 0 increase alfalfa seed yield 4 pounds of alfalfa seed in cash money plenty of room for B C 11 AAi Mi lUnson lkinson MILLARD COUNTY S 1938 crop of alfalfa seed was between tour four mil mi ho lio and five million pounds thresh er run this crop is bringing farm eis around three quarters of a mil lion collais cash what part of this crop did you growa what share of this money do you get geta are you going to grow more seed and make more money on your land in 1939 19 39 how first cutting alfalfa which was timed just right for the 1938 season made dandy seed crops for a number of farmers where the timing was pot mot so good the crop was not so good either if you are expecting to grow first cutting seed figure this timing many farmers had as much as two tons of beautiful first cutting ha hay y per care and then made their seed crops on the second cutting of fa several of these had more than three hundred pounds of good ta fa seed per acre on forty and elethy acre fields A good hay crop and then FIVE thousand dollars worth of seed from the same eighty acres is something to have isn t ita it how did your crop cambare with that these men did tour four things in par nicular they used the right amount of water at the right time they controlled the development of their crops so that the second growth of alfalfa did not start for a few das after the hay crop was taken off and then grew sturdy woody stems they cleared their fields of in junous jurious insects specially dygus or tarnished plant bugs after the frist cutting of hay carde oft off in some cases the hot sun did this for them without special work they timed their operations from th very beginning of the season so that the alfalfa seed crop itself was timed to set seed and de delope orthe bet dygus bugs were able to agaibi im build up to very in junous jurious numb s in freir fields Is each acre of your millard coun ty alfalfa land making two tons of good first cutting bay hay and three hun dred pounds of alfalfa seed or morea if all the alfalfa land in the coun ty was producing g at that rate there would be TEN MILLION pounds of seed and the 1938 crop would have brought a million and a halt dol dot lars besides the hay crop unless you are already ing big crops you have a great deal of room for improvement if your alfalfa land will make two tons of hay by june 15 it should also make three hundred pounds of alfalfa seed between that time and fall if your moisture conditions are right you probably cannot treat every piece of ground the same and get the same results many fields are streak ed or spotted so that different parts of the same field need different treatment you can learn the spots and how they should be treated start figuring and planning now growing a good seed crop is a great deal like building a good house you start by laying a firm foundation and then build solidly as you go you can often remedy small detects defects or troubles in your seed crop as you go through the season but it if it gets started wrong your chances are not very good get started right this spring and grow a really money making crop |