Show an A experiment rd emment station for uintah basin matter of immense importance to everyone in basin energetic support of all needed to put it over by J W BASTIAN president ashley local vernal utah the alfalfa industry has grown from a few bushels to its present condition of over seven million pounds for 1924 the two years preceding the coming of the J G peppard seed company the farmers could hardly realize enough lor for their seed crop to pay them to taku take the chance of losing their hay crop tor for the veed after they located in the basin the industry grew with mushroom rapidity but unlike that fungus plant it going to t die with its favorable climate and so soil I 1 and its hundreds of thousands of acres end with the growing demand tor for uintah basin seed the industry is mere to stay do you know that ards beehive brand of alfalfa seed tops the market tor for quality and price also do you know that in 1920 the seed crop was threshed with the old grain depa separator and one dozen threshing outfits took care of both grain and seed in 1924 there are three dozen or more alfalfa hullers bullers which thresh nothing but seed and they run late into the winter season too alfalfa seed Is the main product of exports which is developing one of the largest trucking systems in the west with the above facts before us we can plainly see why this industry Is finding its way in tho the heart of every uintah basin farmer and yet with the abode facts it simply tells ells us of thle the vastness atness va ot of our empire and not ot of our success it does not tell us of the thousands of failures among the farmers and bt the vast waste ol of crops caused by these seed failures in passing through the country one can see good seed on one side of the fence and a failure on the other one will find from past experiences perien ces that the farmer falls fails one year and succeeds the next or worse may be he gets a good crop one year out of three too it is not always the intensive farmer who wins it is not always a man who Is called a successful farmer who is successful in growing seed Geed in one district the grasshopper feasts on the profits of the farmer and in the next district the chalais fly gets fifths of the crop and puts the other two fifths in the set sec ond or third class seed bin then there is the stripping of the bl 05 som either through drought or too much moisture or through the lack of caused by the blossoms failure to trip and many many other causes undiscovered the question arises then why all thesle theae failures I 1 would answer that the alfalfa industry is only in its infancy that it is just old enough to find its handicaps and drawbacks and that tor for it to be an annual success we must leam how to overcome these handicaps and drawbacks we must learn how to succeed and drivie out failure in order to succeed in the alfalfa industry we mus must have a place where we ran can solve these problems and learn the facts of this wonderful industry and not get the scientific principles ot of seed production from the sacrifice of the whole basin and the sweat and failure ot of the poor farmer who cant afford to lose jose learning the scientific principles of any truth or industry is much more cheaply obtained through scientific research and experiment than through the hard boiled experience of failure and disappointment the uintah county farm bureau has adopted as one of its projects an experiment station for the uintah basin now farmers join the local of your district and get behind the move and push think experiment station talk experiment station wid act when called upon it if we do this the state and our legislature gi cannot help but recognize buch a unit of et strength tor for such a good cause farm bureau project for 1925 project leaders W A maxfield al tonah tor for duchesne county farm bureau hylas C smith roosevelt for uintah county farm arm bureau every wideawake wide awake citizen of uintah basin should be interested in this project whether merchant oi miller lawyer or farmer doctor or editor or whatever he be Is he should write to all the members of the state legislature he knows arid and send semi them reasons why he wants their bup support port he should write a personal letter to governor dern at salt lake city asking that he give us his support three hubar hundred ed wideawake citizens of uintah basin could get some lively interest started some red blooded progressive idea moving and have letters full of information in salt lake city at the capitol within the next ten days will you do it are you dead or alive are you a force or a drift thirteen local farm bureaus of 0 uintah county and twelve local farm bureaus ot of duchesne county give the magnificent ent prestige lot 0 twenty tive five farm bureau communities in the basin to get this project over the top will you get busy at once will you let your community as well as the state know you exist never let the devil get you just because you are sore core where some person pricked your pride never tock aock up heaven just because some bigoted idiot told you where to hoad in at wont you open the flood gates of 0 your wisdom and express yourself will you not sharpen up your old stub ot of a pencil and tell representatives owen bennion and W H and senator T W odonnell what you want them to do you like to have the advantages in cache valley tor for your home you like to have some of the state advantages that salt lake valley has you do not expect these advantages to come tumbling over the rim of the basin and go rolling down into your door yard and you just spit at a crack and wonder what all this noise Is 1 about do you you want to ew splitting and turn the effort into noise did you know that when god handles an am idea thunders crack and worlds comma comb into being did you know that when a man handles an idea a peppard seed company or an Iro Iron toD is evolved do you suppose an experiment station in the basin would allow us to ship in worth of 0 flour floor when we can balsia wheat sheep men to pay per hundredweight tor for corn shipped in when we can raise it here pay annually tor for shipped in lard and cured meats not a all we would be taught to keep keel all that money at home this project covers every phase of farm life it becomes useful only as the people use it and exploits it principles the alfalfa seed industry brought into basin circulation almost i million dollars this year but why should we be shipping in eggs meat flour and corn and who knows what else raise products to keep the money at home oh yes we need fixing the basin canning factory was moved from the basin and we send our money to outside canneries and our fruiht rots on the ground our pork packing plant went the w way ay of failure for lack of support and we help build the fortunes of kansas city and ogden and support swift and armour and corn ground lies idle and hogs are considered a nuisance but the road turns mount alna lose their theW I 1 shadows smiles are lighting the fam faces of pioneer farmers enterprises are becoming stabilized ideas are organizing and the basin is in line tor for achievement you get what you go atter after it you go hard enough do not wait to be kicked into action act the great part you represent line up fellows it you do not know what you can do ask someone the next thirty days may add a mil million limi dollar opportunity to the basin it if every farmer does his big duty do you want an experimental school here in the basin do you wan want t it bad then talk it think it write tor for it dream about lit argue tor nr it fast tor for it go without sleep tor for it tight fight tor for it it all depends upon you so go atter after it by L 11 GOODRICH president naples local farm bureau the basin should have an alfalfa experiment station birst the location and soil makes it exceptionally well adapted to the growing of ct alfalfa seed second the people as continued on page six experimental station for uintah basin continued from page one a whole lack inch experience in the production ot of alfalfa seed the reason tor for this is there has been no inducement cement heretofore tor for growing lindu the seed but the time la Is here aud and it if the proper methods be used the crop can lya produced successfully and that will mean a plant in vernal na I 1 tor for cleaning the same third the demand and prices offered mean untold wealth to the county and state why not have the aid of au ait experiment station in this big enterprise ter prise after forty years ot of tireless waiting and watching dame fortunes sho ship has finally arrived from over the great wall and now goes rushing over the waves of the great uin tahi tab basin dashing Jf forward orward to starboard seaward jerking backward ward going like mad as if all control of her rudder was lost she is loaded past the waterline with wealth enough for all but who shall pilot the good ship safely into port this dream ship comes to us in the form of gf king alfalfa she is here with possibilities ot of millions but who is wise enough to say this is the way to make it pay every man owning from one to one hundred or more mere acres of 0 land is planting and plunging after the seed dollars this year he cuts cut his first crop early and then lets go to seed and it burns up his neighbor cuts likewise then waters and his crop strips the next neighbor strikes it lust just right and makes ton ten thousand dollars next year he follows the plan of neighbor number two the hoppers and chal sis fly get the crop the following year he succeeds next year he falls tail with just enough success to keep him fired as the gold prospector tomorrow or next year ill sure strike pay dirt always trembling mever certain it if we look south where the money comes rolling in from tho the cotton crop or east in the corn belt or cr in the hawaiian islands where mil llou lion alres are made through sugar cane industry or even in our own state where farmers live well through raising sugar heels beets what do we find that makes them always certain and always fully paid lor for their work here we find the best brains of the nation in their line working through the cooperation of tho tha local people state and nation on experiment farms or stations steering the good ship a sure and steady hand into the harbor of 0 o success with these things in mind we should do everything in our power to show the officials of our state and nation that we want and are ready to support the greatest need of th the day an alfalfa seed experiment station for the uintah dasin basin |