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Show 1 2500 Acres Of Noxious Weeds Sprayed In Duchesne County There were 2500 acres of noxious nox-ious weed growth sprayed in '. Duchesne County during 1953, using 1200 gallons of 2-4-D and ! 1600 pounds of atlacide, which was applied by a trained crew. 1 1( The land owner paid half the ' cost of material only. These statical sta-tical figures were shown in the f annual report of the noxious i j weed control program for Du- ; chesne County, as released by 1 Robert S. Murdock, county ag- ; ent. i Glen Gilbert, of Myton, was ; county weed program supervis- Chemicals for destroying the weeds were purchased by the ! county and sold to farmers and ranchers at half cost for use in j spraying noxious weeds. The Duchesne County Noxious j Weed Control program was car- Jied out under the direction of : we county weed committee con-! con-! siting of the following mem- bers: Jack Nielson, chairman; I Hale Holgate. Marion Ross, El-Jier El-Jier Moon, Ray Brown, Floyd E. Lamb, Glen Gilbert, LeGrand j Mecham. Don Neilson, William f Gutzman, Albert Harris, mem-' mem-' bers; and Robert S. Murdock. secretary. j A spray outfit, operated un-; un-; der the direction of the weed j 'Utiram supervisor, was used 5? Principally to spray weeds grow-7 grow-7 m8 along state and county roads, and to do custom spraying spray-ing work where private operators oper-ators were not able to take care of all of the requests. District schools on noxious weed control were held last winter win-ter at Myton, Montwel, Talmage, Bridgeland, Boneta, and Bluebell. Blue-bell. Programs for these schools included discussion of the county coun-ty noxious weed control program; pro-gram; state weed and seed laws, and how the farmer is expected to cooperate; recommendations for controlling noxious weed growth; identification of plants and seeds of the noxious weeds common in this area. Demonstrations were conducted conduct-ed on Russian Knapweed, northwest north-west of Roosevelt; Quack Grass, on ditch banks; Dodder control in hayfields. Poison weed control investigation investi-gation on control were made on Copper Weed and Halogeton. During the fall of 1952, fire guns were used and completely burned the small patqh of Halo-boton Halo-boton located in the upper Strawberry Straw-berry River area, with the object ob-ject 'of destroying all seeds possible. pos-sible. During late spring, the entire area was sprayed with 2-4-D and Polyborchlorate. The 1953 fall inspection disclosed dis-closed a 100 per cent kill of this halogeton. |