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Show Alfalfa Hay and Seed Crop En Basin Equals Other Parts of State; Chart Shows Yield In Two Counties The 1951 alfalfa, hay and seed crop in the Uintah Basin is reported to be as good as . yields in any other part of tiie State of Utah, reports George F. Knowlton, Extension Service entomologist. No section of the state has made more rapid strides in improving alfalfa seea production during the last 2lA years than the Uintah Basin. Mr. Knowlton estimated. Since organizing the winter short courses and the Extension Service's sending a special agent ag-ent to direct the production pro gram during the summer months, coupled with good leadership from the county agents, ag-ents, the Uintah Basin has m;de excellent strides in alfalfa seed production, explained the entomologist. en-tomologist. Also, in following the leadership of the special agent ag-ent (Leon L. Hall, who is biology-science instructor at the Duchesne Du-chesne High School during this term and the one previous), and avoiding unnecessary bee poisoning, pois-oning, good seed grower-beekeeper relationships have been maintained in this area, Mr. Knowlton pointed out. He believes be-lieves this good relationship can be maintained in the future if the two groups will work together to-gether intelligently; and says this will probably mean that application of parathion in bloom must be avoided as has been done in the past. During late September of 1951. Mr. Hall spent two days on a bee and seed yield survey in the Uintah Basin to' obtain information for an Experiment Station project, and to round out information for the Extension Exten-sion Service as to the effectiveness effective-ness of the program which he, working with county agents Louis A. Jensen of Duchesne County, and Clair Acord of Uintah Uin-tah County, had carried out in Duchesne and Uintah County alfalfa seed areas this year. Obtaining yield information from each alfalfa seed grower contacted, so far as possible, Mr. Hall secured the acreage and alfalfa yield information listed below: Lbs. Clean Seed No. Per Name - Location Acres Acre C. Liddell, Myton 34 337.5 B. Abegglan P. Valley 67 608 E. Babcock, P. Valley, 12 472 W. Johnson. Roosevelt 23 553.5 M. McMullin, Randlett 26 499.5 L. Pickup, Randlett 25 540 R. Taylor, Randlett 30 540 W. Pickup, Randlett 14 580.5 H. Dudley, Randlett 16 810.5 B. Stoddard, Ouray 6 814.5 I. Rogers, Ouray 8 634.5 R. Rogers, Ouray 57 337.5 C. Jorgensen, Ouray 18 607 E. Mowery, Lapoint 20 418.5 J. Marcus, Lapoint 17 513 L. Wodley, Lapoint 9 675 C. Merkley, Tridell 60 675 R. McKee, Tridell 13 810 E. Warburton, Lapoint 13 540 C. Taylor, Lapoint - 20 600 T. Shisler, Roosevelt 25 513 A. Anderson, Ballard 120 678.5 TOTAL ' 641 579.8 aversge It should be noted, states Mr. Knowlton, that these alfaifa seed yields wre obtained without with-out any use of parathion on blossoming blos-soming alfalfa. Tetraethyl pyro phosphate or- TEPP used in ground sprayer treatments was used to control the pea aphid in some of the more severely infested fields. No extensive bee poisoning occurred in the Uintjh Basin during 1951, Mr. Knowlton Knowl-ton said so far as could be determined de-termined from field observations or reports of beekeepers. The pea aphid outbreak in the Uintah Basin was approximately approxi-mately as severe during 1951 as that which occurred in the Delta tract. The Uintah Basin seed growers apparently did not lose by avoiding the ise of pnr-' athion on the blossoming fields, Mr. Knowlton concluded. |