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Show ALFALFA STUDY SET FOR MEET Seed growers in Utah will have an opportunity Jan. 22 to hear a speaker who has made history in alfalfa research and development. Dr. F. L. Graber, head of the agronomy department of the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin, will be guest speaker at the 1954 annual meeting of the Utah Crop Improvement association. The one-day session will be held in the Hotel Utah, with an attendance at-tendance of more than 300 Utahns expected. Announcement of the meeting has been made by a three-man committee headed by Dr. R. J. Evans, professor emeritus of agronomy ag-ronomy at Utah State Agricultural college; Louis Jensen, extension agronomist at USAC, and Golden L. Stoker, professor of agronomy. Dr. Graber has championed the development of alfalfa as a forage crop in Wisconsin for more than 40 years and is responsible for the new Vernal variety. During his work there he has been the chief backer of an alfalfa crop in Wisconsin Wis-consin that has boomed from 18,000 acres in 1909 to more than two million acres in 1951, when his state became the first in the nation to top that figure. |