PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF BETTER SEEDS 
Vol. 13, No. 7 CORNEL I SEED COMPANY, 101 CHOUTEAU AVE., ST. LOUIS, MO. MARCH 22, 1937 
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AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION—WASHINGTON, D. G. 
Producers Reminded That AAA Payments Will 
Not Be Earned Unless Adapted Seed is Used 
Participants in the 1937 Agricultural 
Conservation Program were reminded to¬ 
day by the Agricultural Adjustment Ad¬ 
ministration that the program requires 
them to sow adapted seed in order to qualify 
for soil-building payments for seeding red 
clover and alfalfa or mixtures of these seeds. 
This is a strict provision of the 1937 pro¬ 
gram, affecting all agricultural regions of 
the United States. 
Soil-building payments will be made in 
all regions for seeding adapted domestic and 
Canadian clover and alfalfa and mixtures 
containing such clover and alfalfa at the 
rates and under the conditions stated in 
the program. Such payments will not be 
made in any region for seeding unadapted 
seed whether of domestic or imported origin. 
The seeding of imported (except Cana¬ 
dian) or unadapted domestic seed or mix¬ 
tures containing these seeds will not classify 
land as soil-conserving in the North Central 
Region where most red clover and consider¬ 
able alfalfa seed are harvested. Soil-building 
payments will not be made for the seeding 
of unadapted seed in the North Central 
Region whether imported or domestic, and 
the $3.00 soil-conserving payment will not 
be made even if there is a stand of red clover 
or alfalfa this fall from the seeding of 
unadapted seeds. 
North Central Region states are: 
Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, 
Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, In¬ 
diana and Ohio. 
In all other states, land seeded to clover, 
alfalfa or mixtures of these seeds from any 
source will be classified as soil-conserving 
if state and county committees determine 
in late summer and early fall that there is 
a stand from the seed which will survive the 
winter. The land on which good stands are 
obtained will be counted in determining 
the diversion payment but, as has'been 
stated, the use of such seed will not qualify 
for any soil-building payment. 
State committees may determine in ad¬ 
vance of planting the kinds of clover and 
alfalfa seeds sufficiently adapted to survive 
winter. 
If farmers outside the North Central 
Region use in mixtures clover and alfalfa 
seed imported from countries other than 
Canada, they should be sure that in the 
mixtures there is enough other seed which 
will grow well in the region to insure a good 
stand. 
Some misunderstanding has resulted 
from the fact that although the Department 
of Agriculture does not deem imported red 
clover and alfalfa seed from some origins 
“not adapted for general agricultural use”, 
it does deem it to be of such limited adap¬ 
tion that its use in connection with the 
Agricultural Conservation Program should 
not be encouraged. 
Under the Federal Seed Act, the Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture may determine, after 
public hearings, that red clover or alfalfa 
seed imported from certain countries “is 
not adapted for general agricultural use in 
the United States”. Under the law, 10 
percent of such seed must be stained red. 
One percent of all other imported red clover 
or alfalfa seed of known origin, except that 
from Canada, must be stained green. By 
implication, green-stained seed, since not 
being legally determined “not adapted”, 
has been assumed by some to be “adapted”. 
It should be recognized, however, that 
“adapted” is a relative term and that seed 
may be well adapted, fairly well adapted, 
poorly adapted, or entirely unadapted to a 
given region. 
Extensive experiments have shown that 
seed of many foreign origins permitted 
entry with green staining under the Federal 
Seed Act is not as well adapted to important 
producing regions as certain strains of na¬ 
tive stocks. Furthermore, the North Central 
Region is an important area for the produc¬ 
tion of domestic red clover and alfalfa seed. 
The use in this area of poorly adapted 
strains, whether of domestic or foreign 
origin, would present a hazard of contami¬ 
nation to the well-adapted seed stocks both 
through mixture and hybridization. 
Consequently, the Agricultural Conser¬ 
vation Program seeks to protect the yields 
of red clover and alfalfa in the important 
red clover and alfalfa-producing regions. 
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