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Show Record Ladino Crop Expected To Be Too Small To Supply Seed Demand The 1949 Ladino clover seed crop of 3,390,000 pounds of clean seed was the largest ever produced in this country, but even so, reports the -U. 6. Department De-partment of Agriculture, it may not be large enough to supply the demand for seed because the crop has become so popular in large sections of the country. J. Vern Hopkin, chairman of the Utah PMA committee, explains ex-plains that Ladino clover has been called the wonder crop whose worth was demonstrated in the New England Green Pasture Pas-ture contest. Every winner in the county, state, and regional contests used Ladino clover. In the pasture contest in Pennsyl vania in 1949 every contestant in 49 counties indicated the plants in his pasture listed Ladino La-dino clover. Ladino, the chairman chair-man points out, is growing in popularity in the Middle West, except in some of the extreme northern portions. It has spread to all parts of the West where there is ample moisture. The popularity of the crop is reflected in the acreage harvested harvest-ed for seed. In 1944 the acreage jumped to over 12,000 from a previous high of 5,000. With some fluctuations it has increased in-creased to over 25,000 acres in 1949. Production has increased from 390,000 pounds of clean seed in 1943 to 3,390,000 pounds in 1949. |