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Show Utah Farms Need Seed Of Quality Production of quality seed in Utah is being encouraged by the Utah State Agricultural college extension ex-tension service and its cooperative agencies as a measure to raise the quality of farm products in the state and increase the farm income. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" is still as much in effect as it was, college agronomits affirm. It is generally safer to plant high quality qual-ity home-grown seed than to risk the unknown quality of imported seed. Efficient f aimers are careful to buy seed from conscientious and responsible seed growers. Extensive use of home grown seed is prevented by its scarcity. This condition is fortunate since, if sufficient interest were shown, quality seed could,, be raised in abundant quantitie . inv Utah to satisfy the needs cf state farmers and build up a profitable and extensive ex-tensive seed market in other areas. In 1937, only two-thirds as many seed potatoes were iroduced in this state as will be planted this year. There were only 16 certified vrheaS growers, producing only about 10 per cent of the 462 bushels of seed wheat needed for the spring and fall plantings. Less than one per cent of the amount cf certified seed oats need-od need-od in the s ate were grown in Utah. Only four men raised seed oats. It is estimated that 90,000 bushels cf seed oats a,re needed; 137,250 bushels of barley. Thirteen certified certi-fied local growers produced less than two per cent of this necessary neces-sary barley supply. Less than fifty fif-ty men raised certified alfalfa seed in 1937, and together they did not o oduce more than one-third of that needed in Utah this year. |