The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-11
An Opportunity for Alfalfa
Growers
By F. L. GRADER, Secretary Wisconsin Alfalfa Growers
Association

plainly distinguishing characteristic, it
would be far more valuable to us than
now obtains. | do not wish to assume
that all seed growers are dishonest or
that all Grimm seed growers are dis
honest, but | have reason to feel that
some growers and some seedmen are
enther intentionally or unintentionally
handling seed as Grimm alfalfa which
according to its field behavior fails in
having those characteristics of hardi-
ness which makes Grimm more valua-
bic than common. This is a big prob
lem and one that is hard to solve. |
hope hat III discussion here today
will prove to be a step in the direction
of getting genuine Grimm seed from
the producer to the consumer"
Reliable and Unreliable Seed Growers.
From u viewpoint, the western
grower may fit into one or more of
four classes as follows:
!. He may be fair and square. He
may be growing and selling nothing
but genuine, true-to-name, unadulter-
ated Grimm alfalfa seed. He is the
man we want to know and get ac-
quainted with and whose seed is al
ways welcome in the state of Wiscon-
sin.
2. Then we have the grower who
may be honest but who is growing
and selling what he thinks is genuine
Grimm seed-alfalfa that he brought,
paid end soWed for Grimm-and still
he may not have the real article. He
himself may have been "stunG' on the
seed he originally bought for Grimm.
This grower has our sympathy. We
can tell him by u trials with his seed
whether or not it possesses those char
acterlsticS Of hardness which makes
true Grimm valuable. But our SYM
patly and good opinion of this grower
end at this very time when carefully
conducted tests are reported to him
showing his seed to have no particular
superiority over common alfalfa and
he, with this knowledge. still contin-
ues to grow and sell his seed as
Grimm.
B.. Another case is the grower who
happens to have fields to native al.
falfa that he knows are 20, % or ever
% years old and by virtue of having
survived so many western winters he
assumes that this alfalfa must be
hardy and deludes himself into be.
lieving that it must be the same as
Grimm and therefore why not sell il
for Grimm and get a Grimm price? A
grower of this sort has the right tt
sell his alfalfa as native seed with such
statements as to its hardness as he
thinks the @ of his fields would in
dictate, but he has no right to use the
good name and reputation of Grimm
alfalfa to command an extra price fol
his seed nor can he above all, honestly
sell this as Grimm.
T.. The last class of growers ar,
those despicable parasites of human
ity who for the sake of financial gain
will Intentionally take common alfal
fla and sell it for Grimm or who viii
take Genuine Grimm and mix it will
common and sell the mixture at :
e.. fancy price as genuine, true-to-name
unauthorized Grimm alfalfa seed
These men are plain crooks. The,
not only cause direct loss to thos'
=, with whom they deal but their crooked
ness suspicion regarding tn
: value of Grimm and curtails the de
: mand of the true, genuine Grimm see
! produced by the reliable growers.