Pleasant Grove Review | 1954-09-17 | Page 4 | Buying Good Seed worth Extra Price

Buying Good Seed Worth Extra Price Poor Yields, More Weeds Are Bad Risk Cheap, low quality alfalfa seed may turn out to be the most expensive ex-pensive for farmers In the long run, report Midwestern agronomists. agrono-mists. That's particularly true 11 a farmer has added fertilizer to the soil and spent time and money on seed-bed preparation. II you harvest a poor yield due to poor quality seed, your soli building Investment gives little q'llck return. And If there Is a j . m ' i o " , : ".' v .-''' k T ' - ' - " ' '" ' ' L ' i ' : . 1 Purdue University conducted a "trueness-to-type" test In the field shown here. Of the 229 official samples planted, about seven per cent proved to be mixtures, although al-though they were not labeled as such. high percentage of weeds, you face an expensive weed control program. pro-gram. The agronomists say it is cheaper cheap-er to make sure the seeds you use are the kind you want, than lt is to save a few cents a pound and then have the alfalfa winter-kill or give low yields because less desirable de-sirable seed has been mixed' with the good kind. It's a rare batch of seed that is really pure unless it is "certified," say the agronomists.