Show county C bounty aela seat t news N e s peppard seed company outlines program at a meeting held in III duchesne last thursday evening with some of the farmers of 0 this vicinity a program was outlined by ross bartlett representative of 0 the peppard seed company which it if followed out 11 T will likely be a benefit to the seed growers of this basin the meeting was conducted by william B D pratt manager of the companas comp anys plant at duchesne A A hinckley a member ot of the state board of 0 agriculture a man who has had many years of experience in the raising buying and selling of alfalfa seed gave a very instructive and interesting talk on the raising buying and selling belling of seed mr air bartlett first outlined the program of the company as follows first it being their aim to try to establish and perfect a standard high grade alfalfa seed and to acquire a wide and just reputation for utah and particularly the uintah basin in the seed industry by proper advertising ver and by adopting some specific name as a brand the name proposed was the bee hive brand it was also the companas comp anys desire to cooperate with the farmers by furnishing expert men to supervise and inspect the crops during their growing period to have testing laboratories in connection with their cleaning plants and to organize growers committees consisting of one representative of the company and ten from the growers one from each of the following districts ter mot fat randlett lapoint aridell tridell white rocks loka ioka upalco bluebell alton ahalt ah alt mt emmons duchesne myton arcadia boneta mt alt home talmage and a n d tabiona fabiona hannah fruitland froitland Fruit land this committee would be chosen by growers in each particular district and would represent the growers in the making or changing of contracts between the farmers and the company A chairman would also be elected who would have hae power to call meetings by giving three days written notice mr air hinckley enumerated some of the essential things for the successful raising of seed despite the many which growers must con 71 end with as to climate soil and locality he also stated the advantages of standardizing and grading not 6 only of seed but of any marketable crop and that such would be a great means of advertising product sto the hozid mr hinckley said that while our neighboring state idaho raises about tour four times the amount of alfalfa seed utah does the reason for this was that they were making it one of their industries and that they had spent more time in grading than in advertising ver II if e remarked t that h a t through experimentation it had been proved that tile the utah grown seed was just as high in quality as that coming from the geni gem state and that our growing conditions such as climate soil etc just is as favorable |