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Show Annual Seed Report Shows County Has State's Largest Field Of Seed Onions; Drought, Insects, Pests Reduce Output Duchesne county's certified seed production program in 1956 was plagued by drought, pests and insects, in-sects, rodents, shortage of wild bees and high winds at harvest time, but there was one bright, and interesting, aspect. The county boasts the largest field (three acres) of certified onion seed in the state, an espect of agriculture not generally known even to the residents of Duchesne county. All this is contained in the yearly report of James E. Bacon area supervisor of the Utah Crop Improvement Association. The filed is owned by Leonard Potter, who, according to Mr. Bacon, "really knows his onions." Growing Since 1934 Associated with Mr. Potter in the seed onion project is Clarence Winegar, the certified producer of yellow sweet Spanish onions that he has been growing since 1934. The accompanying photo shows them in the onion field. Yield on a good crop of onions according to Mr. Bacon is 225 pounds of clean onion seed per acre Prices have ranged from $4 to $13 per pound over the years since Mr. Winegar has been in the onion seed business. He began with one-half acre in 1934 and has had as high as seven acres of certified seed. Reviewing other happeruns on the seed picture, Mr. Qacon reported: re-ported: Poor Alfalfa Year In a poor year for alfa'fa seed, the 34 growers of certified alfalfa C ' if S IV ,, - . 4 - i1,1- ' " ! - - ' i " ' ' t?, ' - " ',,''' , ' . - i .' , i i- ; - : $ ' '' ' V' . . ;!'h- .' ' P ; , . . - "i ' . ' K iim'rfi w in ii i iB m 1 1 1i ii m t i & m mm n -t -S, mm mil -'--mtKm 4 V Ja. A mat ji ilzsu' iaiA r,X.E )T ONION SEED FIELD IN STATE a?re feld of certified Seed onion is being surveyed by its owner, Leonard Potter, r.r'.-t alm w th the grower, Clarence Winegar seed in Duchesne and Uintah Counties produced 217, 924 pounds of certified seed this year from the 812 acres in the certified program. Price for certified seed this year was almost three times that of 1955 soaring from 120 per lb. to 350 for certified seed. However, How-ever, production in the Uintah Basin was way down this year due to drought and other handicaps. handi-caps. In an effort to make high-quality seed's, plants, bulbs, tubers and other propagating materials of superior germ plasm available to the public, the growers in the State of Utah have organized the Utah Crop Improvement Association. Associa-tion. Control of the organization is left in the hands of the certified certi-fied seed growers. Administration of the Utah Crop Improvement Association at the present time is under the direction of Golden L. Stoker, Executive Secreary of the association. Area supervisors such as Mr. Bacon work in different section of the state under his direction. Individual Activities Listed as activities of the Utah Crop Improvement Association is the development of high quality seeds, plants, and ground stock, and the elimination of weeds and foreign growths from the soil. These activities are carried on by the individual growers under the area supervisor. If the grower does not conform to the requirements, the area supervisor su-pervisor is bound by the rules of the Utah Crop Improvement Association As-sociation to classify the seed as common rather than certified. This has happened to hundreds of acres here in the Basin. This is a program set up by the growers on volunteer basis and has not come from pressure from the state government. Any seed grower may join the Utah Crop Improvement Association Associa-tion if he is interested in producing produc-ing certified seed. First, land must be inspected by the area supervisor who looks for similar crop growth, weeds and especially dodder, sweet clover, and noxious weeds. The soil must be free from these plants and must be kept clean as long as it is in the certified program. This requires a lot of hand work. Elimination of weeds to make the soil fit for the certified program pro-gram must be acomplished by the grower. The help of the County Agent and County weed supervisor, super-visor, of course, are available. Certified seed growers in Duchesne Du-chesne County in 1956 have been Jesse R. Allen,, Nathan D. Allen, Lowell F. Babcock, Edwin Carman, Car-man, Bruce Fitzgerald, Earl Gin-gel.l, Gin-gel.l, R. K. Hamhlin, Lawrell Jensen, Jen-sen, George W. Lythgoe, L. Clark Roberts, Howard D. Roberts, Lorin S. Ross, Marion Ross, Theodore Thomas, George A. Ward, Joseph E. Wilcken and Clarence Winegar. Listed for Uintah County are Ross Merrell, Lawrence C. Cooper, Coop-er, Vern Huff, Elmer Kohkonen, O. H. Moore, Orson C. Nielsen. Neldon Nielsen, Wilmar D. Par-rish, Par-rish, LaMont Walker and Austin Wardle. Several other growers have applied ap-plied from both counties for certification certi-fication for the 1957 season, concluded con-cluded Mr. Bacon. I GASOLINE BLAST BY "DYZOOKA" BLAST Bombarding gasoline with a "dyzooka" is a unique way of coloring the gasoline with less mess, delay and bother. The new device, dubbed a 'dyzooka" because be-cause of its resemblence to a bazooka when assembled, makes possible the direct injection of dry dye from the shipping drum into the finished gasoline (gasoline must be colored for quick , type identification). The "dyzooka" assembly as-sembly consists of an aluminum tube within a tube the inner tube sucks the dye powder from the container into the gasoline stream;, the outer tube supplies a down-draft of air insuring continuous con-tinuous fluidized flow of dry dye without clogging. Sharpshooting oiHndustry techniques like this one have assisted in the rocketlike rocket-like rise of gasoline quality. f Woods Cress, center; and Mr. Potter's brother. broth-er. The Potter field which is located on North Mvton Bench is reported to be the largest single feld in Utah growing certified seed. |