Show SCARCITY OF ALFALFA SEED department of agriculture has purchased nearly all available seed for distribution my by P K BLINN colorado experiment station the merits of the grimms alfalfa have been exploited for or several years tut but there still seems to be a very mall commercial supply of the seed and this tact fact seems to be rather singular in view of 0 the high prices that this seed has sold tor for in recent years but there are several reasons why this strain of alfalfa Is not more plentiful or lower in price first the acreage of genine grimms alfalfa in minnesota the original gat home of the strain is rather limited and the conditions tor for growing seed in that region are not as ft a rule favorable except in dry years second a dependable method tor for growing alfalfa seed has riot not yet been established and there have been many failures in attempting to grow grimms alfalfa tor for seed third most of the avail available able grimms alfalfa seed has been sold in ismall email lots at high prices and used in testing the hay production to compare with common alfalfa al talta instead of growing seed where attempts have been made to produce seed feed from small plats it has been found very expensive to geathe get the seed threshed and cleaned vp on rc count of the small email amount of seed feed fourth the hay testa of grimms grimm alfalfa have been so BO uniformly favorable that the demands tor for the seed have bave outgrown the supply the U S i department of agriculture has tor for i several years purchased nearly all the i available grimm or baltic alfalfa seed to use in their dryland dry land seed distribution hence it Is next to impossible to buy any very great amounts ot of jt grimms or baltic alfalfa seed thre th re Is an urgent need tor for a i greater supply of 0 improved strains et J alfalfa seed and the colorado experiment peri perl ment station Is endeavoring to encourage some farmers who are favorably situated to engage in growing the improved alfalfa seed the funds available to prosecute this line of work are small yet several private i parties have seeded quite largo large acre ages to baltic and grimms alfalfa nath with a view to producing seed |