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Show I UTAH FARMERS SHOULD PRODUCE OWN SEED. Urging the farmers of Utah to grow their own seed wheat, the experts of the Utah agricultural college present the results of tests made over a period per-iod of five years: Dry farm wheat grown In Utah from imported seed does no decrease iin quality. The five-year average protein pro-tein content of the home-grown seed i differs only hy 0.1 per cent from that lot the original seed, that is, tho pro-,tein pro-,tein content of the home-grown seed has remained practically constant, being be-ing influenced only by tho varying climatic conditions from year to year. .The five-year average result for the protein content of the wheat grown fyom the imported seed is 2.23 per s-"7cent greater than that of the original 'imported seed. Every variety of im-ported im-ported seed produced wheat the first year it was grown in Utah, having a higher protein content than the oiigl-nal oiigl-nal seed. Neither year during the five-year period has any variety produced pro-duced seed having as low a protein content as the original Imported seed. The college experts declare the practice of shipping In seed wheat Is netirely unnecessary and wasteful. The quality of the home-grown hard rnVmotF Jn iifi"i1lr ennprinr tn tho nrlci- I. L J i--- - j- nal seed. Good pure wheat seed should be selected of the kind the grower S desires to raise. He should then continue con-tinue to raise his own seed, and, with proper selection, he may rest assured hat the quality of the seed will not " " (become inferior, but he may have every confidence that his wheat Is of superior quality. |