Show N E IV S r H E A ants renews o C agents A corner bounty au edited by lamont E county agent the efforts of tile the people of oc utah in tile the past few years to eliminate no nexion xion weeds have resulted in a great deal ot of disappointment noxious ious weeds seem to he be ini ceasing at 1 very rapid pace it Is usually conceded by thoe who have given t tah i i i i ni matter i tte r s study t u d y that t the be p people e opi c n must i i i st 1 be e a aroun ro ti ii s sed e d to the th e se kerious r 1 s nhsn desp of this situation in times past our vision in ili regard to this m matter a t t lia has b been CC n very obscure it s seems e e s 1 that we are planting more noxious weeds than we we are eliminating recent legislatures have pure seed laws for this state that I 1 aro treated with contempt and the I 1 farm farmers L r S are not of the seriousness ot of the situation during the month of april the state stale seed analyst visited stores which word selling seed to the farmers sixty eight ot of these stores handled package seed only the remainder j we V lulng 1211 ing bulk and package seeds twenty six per cent were complying anith the pure seed law thirty two percent were complying only in part and flarty two per cent were not complying with the law at all during the month of april approximately 1000 pounds of brome grass seed containing quack grass wa was condemned more than 1000 1000 pounds of radish seed containing wild morning glory a considerable I 1 amount of onion seed containing wild morning alory approximate lly ly atoo pounds of alfalfa seed containing w whitetop white ate i top and russian knapweed were condemned and destroyed st there were also several thousand pounds ot of alf aleatta citra seed which contained an excessive amount amount of dodder tile the communities in which this seed containing noxious weeds was found pip aie salt lale lake city provo prove ogden panguitch Pan gultch Kanar ravine any Dr ighani city trenton morgan kamas price roosevelt cedar I 1 da city spanish fork duchesne I 1 Spring springville ville logan murray sandy lid lewiston bountiful and am american 1 an F fork rk S seed I 1 firms who were 0 r t ieng ieng contrary ary to law have been not notified 1 that it will be the polley policy of tile tho department of agriculture in the future to prosecute all violators of 0 the pure saeed law I 1 we the department of agriculture iture would like to use one example aple pertaining to the seriousness of athis this situation since last seed time the department of agriculture has condemned and destroyed several ton tons ot of radish seed infested with tv ith abild morning glory seed geed there are but a few farms in our state upon which are not grown a small akish patch sometime during the growing sea tint probably the average amount ol 01 0 seed bought would bo be less than one pound per farm you can readily see that wild morning glory found in the amount of seed that IJ would infest most of 0 the farms of our state I 1 As a matter ot of ta the tinner farmer i planting ng unknowingly noxious I 1 erdi hat are dei destroy ii 1119 farm iid 1 bang wit with it tho resources resource of our stale elate an educational i should be started at once to acquaint asi aci 1 quaint I 1 lie he 3 wf i the ilio reil real I 1 facts and the laws pertaining to I 1 violators ot of the pure seni laws j should be and will be enforced us i rigidly as the department ot of agai culture Is ii able 1 radio time signals are sent out daily from arlington and mare isi land to give correct time to vessels at sea I 1 fa tab bi bac producers who aho contracts and because 0 of f drouth now their wheat pu pal want to plow up tip turc lure it off or cut it to tor r hay should consult alvir al lAmen t committee before doing so advises W W 0 wens veng assistant director ot of the utah ta h extension easlon service this committee ext form W 37 which the 0 has s a producer mait fill ill out before the gives its written committee n allotment not t en consent for or it him im to abandon his bhea acreage for the producer only necessary it 11 1 Is to follow the above proceed tills this abandonment of ac u ure re when beago will leave him less that 54 4 per cent of his average e acreage in what for instance it a producer average of 0 acres tit in had an wheat each year during the baie period ho he agreed when lie he mignell neil the contract to plant riot not moie t than sa acres nor less than 54 acre acres tor for harvest this year it if lie he planted the 83 acres and now wishes to cut SO 30 acres of 0 tills this for hay he can do so without consulting the allotment committee as he be would astl still 11 have hava 55 acres of wheat left jhc which 1 ful fils his bis contract if however he be wishes to cut tor for bay pasture re or plow up 50 50 go 60 or the entire 85 a ores creg he should secure the written consent of the allotment committee as lie he would have less than the required minimum of 54 acres when the inspector comes to check his farm mr owens points out 0 two ton of poison bran bait tor for the control of grasshoppers wai distributed to thirty two farmers in the county during the past week one ton of this bait was used in iii paragonah Para gonah where the grasshopper infestation seems to be most severe in iron county this year the effectiveness of the bait has been checked somewhat on account of the weather conditions the constant wind and the cloudy cool weather has not been conducive to most efficient poisoning re stilts however sixty to seventy five per cent control has beer achieved chero lero consistent of tle 2 ates as has beai tri ed 0 ol 01 t an additional three tons tolls of P son bail baft have been ordered for tit tina county 0 many readers of the times undoubtedly noticed the sirs mrs idella D robinson ot of Para paragonah Parag gonah onali was the author ot of the prize winning story in it the intermountain products column in a recent issue of 0 the times for this story on why you should use intermountain made goods sirs mrs robinson received a check tor for the tha amount which is offered each week tor for the story selected to be published it in that column N 41 1 mel choiley was up froin cedar city monlay monday afternoon on mattery matters |