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Show FRENCH WEED IS TOUGHEST PLANT French weed, said to be the toughest tough-est member of the mustard family, is under the dairyman's ban for the reason that It gives a garlic-like flavor to milk, cream, and finished butter when dairy cows are kept on pastures where the weed flourishes or are fed cor.nuiInated mill feeds. Only recently a shipment of tainted butter origimit ing in Minnesota had to take a discount dis-count of S2.73 a tub of 00 pounds when sold on an eastern . market. 0;:lry division men of the University "f Minnesota will conduct an experi-ii experi-ii i.i to convict the weed scientifically scientific-ally and to determine just bow much of It can be fed In bay to the cow without Hunting her product. They will study the matter of pasture regulations regu-lations that will eliminate the danger of contamination to the minimum. Finally they will try to determine what treatment, if any, can be given the milk to remove the objectionable flavor. According to botanists, french weed, or pennycress, Is an annual like wheat, of winter or spring. The severest cold does It no harm, and chemical sprays that' make other members of the mustard family curl up and die do not faze It. It ennuot be crowded out by farm crops for lit likes to do all the crowding Itself. A single pod smaller than the head of a thumb tack curries a dozen or more seeds, seeds which have such astonishing vitality that they will live for years In the soil and develop plants In dense timothy tim-othy sod. |