Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-14
SEED
COMMITTEE is
HELPING VALLEY

The newly organized Imperial
I County Farm Bureau approved
seed committee of George Buffers,
J. L. Taecker, D. D. Brownell, Wal
/ ter Hawk. Harold Brockman. w. w.
Weeth and D. E. Creighton, has
been alert in checking over seed
fields of barley and wheat. The
grains are generally slightly mixed
as TO varieties, so this committee
has rejected them all so far as ap-
proval is concerned. One field OF
common barley owned by Buffers
at Brawley was recommended, being
pure as to variety and has made
very satisfactory yield. A request
for foundation seed of various kinds
which are purified and standardized
in seed plots at the University Of
California, Davis branch, has been
made.
Barley seed stocks are particu-
larly unavailable at this time.
The committee has ordered
limited supply of Double Dwarf milo
foundation seed for use this sum-
mer. Growers who desire some of
this seed must make application
and have clean ground upon which
to grow it.
Negotiations are under way for
carlot of White Federation wheat
seed. which has been selected and
purified by coast growers. Pure
seed will do much to raise the yields,
increase the market value, improve
the grain situation.
Various members of the commit
tee are also interested in livestock,
both cattle and sheep. Buffers,
cattle feeder. has now built
feeding, receiving, weighing. load
ing and handling chutes. His lay
out has many novel features such
as artesian water under natural
pressure. a new departure in feed
and other developments to
come later.
Brownell has put much of his feed
through the "woolies" with very
good results, while Taecker, also of
he same Magnolia District, has sold
MS feed to cattlemen who have
ried various combinations of bales,
choppers and pasturing.
Harold Brockman represents a
;ystem of barley production which |
his year has added the "swather"
,r windrow-pick up combination OF /!
This method enables |
he handling Of weedy grain to good |
advantage. The growing and plow-
ng under of sesbania wild hemp !
las increased yields on their barley !
Icreage. Smyrna, better known as !
Club Mariout. Golden Mariout, or |
Early Mariout, is proving a popu- I
ar variety. This variety is consid- !
red superior for rolling and feed |
purposes.
Walter Hawk represents the !
wheat belt of the valley or the |
Bonds Corner district. Spring |
reezss caused some slight reduc- ;
ion in yield on the early planted
wheat in his district. In recent
,ears wheat has paid so well that
much Of the lighter soils were used
'or this crop exclusively. Since
rost of the local wheat supply Is
lSeG as feeG, tne IldIil ulleieSl tio'
,een in securing high yields. Thus
ar White Federation has been the
eading variety.
Grain has fitted into the rotation
Glowing vegetables and will prob
blv continue as an important cash |
rop between vegetables and the |
ime the land is reseeded to alfalfa.
Weeds which interfere with cereal /
nd grain sorghum yields are often
lines the factor making it adYisa-
lie to rotate to alfalfa.
With the approved seed commit
ee on the job. it should be a mat
er of but few years until the grain
ields of Imperial Valley will be ex-
client seed stocks for many parts
# the southwest.