Show UTAH FARMS NEED SEED OF QUALITY production of quality seed in utah is being encouraged by the utah state cultural college extension service and its cooperative agencies as a measure to raise the quality of farm products in the state and increase farm income As ye sow so shall ye reap is still as much in effect as it was college agronomists affirm it is generally safer to plant high quality home grown seed than to risk the unknown quality of imported seed efficient farmers are careful to buy seed from conscientious ious and responsible ible seed growers extensive use of home grown seed is prevented by its scarcity this condition is since if sufficient interest were shown quality of seed could be raised in abundant quantities in utah to satisfy the needs of state farmers and build up a profitable and extensive seed market in other areas in 1937 only two thirds as many seed potatoes were produced in this state as will be planted this year there were only 16 certified wheat growers producing only about 10 per cent of the bushels of wheat needed for the spring and fall plantings ess 5 than one per cent of the it of ani tidied seed oats in tate were grown in utah only four men raised oats it is estimated that bushels of seed oats are needed bushels of barley thirteen certified local growers produced less than two percent per cent of this necessary barley supply less than fifty men raised certified alfalfa seed in 1937 and together they did not produce more than one third of that needed for utah this year more than bushels of potatoes have ben purchased by the federal surplus commodities cor horation po ration from utah farmers the past year as a part of a nationwide nation wide surplus disposal program at least bushels were purchased throughout the country crops purchased under th the co commissions authorization are being diverted to relief uses |