Show Duchesne County Farm News j by Lloyd Smith and Norris WEED SCHOOL DATE SET FOR 7 IN VERNAL The district weed school for the public of this area will be held at Vernal February Sponsored bv the Utah State University Extension Service in cooperation with the county commissioners and the U. S Department of the Vernal meeting place and time will be announced Tentative program is from 9 30 to Likely the meeting will be held at the Uintah County This district meeting is for the people of the counties of Uintah and Program outlined A movie on weed two reports from each county on a successful weed control practice or program and what worked in each Uintah Basin principals of selective weed slide series by Louis A. extension using herbicides weed situation in each county survey information from county representatives in dis groups by on topics to include Is good about our county weed program What has been done in the past years to improve our county weed What should be done in the next years to make our county weed program What shall we do about it this A review of chemical weed control recommendations for 1963 will be given by Jensen and the agricultural a-gents from each county A supply of revised Weed Handbooks will be C-A HAY CROPS YIELD TONS PER ACRE Average hay production in Duchesne County is 2 5 tons per This is made in a report of survey made by Lloyd agricultural agent at Duchesne for the Utah State University Extension While some farmers receive as high as seven and eight tons per others receive under two tons from an acre of hay Smith says that forage nursery plots established to check on the proper varieties of alfalfa to plant in this showed the Ranger alfalfa was considered best for hay production with Vernal as the next best selection and Smith states the survey shows thousands of tons of hay are damaged by storms each year in this county before and after It is Considerable effort has been put forth to encourage farmers to use some type of cover or storage for their Sixty per cent of the farmers of the county use improper varieties of hay and the survey Farmers are being encouraged to buy clean Steps to higher alfalfa hay yields are recommended as proper adequate plant adapted variety in a good seed irrigate control weeds and maintain C-A VISITS 28 FARMERS The county agent made personal visits to 28 farmers in this county the past relative to irrigation practices needed to improve on hay and grain This help included irrigation such as when to how long to use water and the amount of water different kinds of soils Radio and newspaper articles were prepared to encourage these programs and also to encourage the farmers to irrigate in the Two weed tours were conducted where information was given on how weed seeds spread and the importance of using recommended varieties of crop seed was Thirty-five attended these |