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Show KILLING THE MILK WEED. . How One Farmer Successfully Era lb cated It from His Fields With reference to n mothod of t x-terminating x-terminating milk weed nnd morn! g glory, will nny thnt If It Is thu ni k weed that grows from tho root as w II as from seed, and which hns tho se I attached to down that scatters wh n tho wind blows, I can glvo tho x-perlonco x-perlonco we hud sovernl years a, o. My father hud n Hold badly Infest d with such milk weeds nnd pen via s, snyH n writer In Prnlrlo Farmer, n d he sowed It to oats, cutting tho o. ts before the milk weed was rlpo otuiu ;h for tho seed to scatter Ho plowed ' o ground In August, when tho grou d was dry, going Just deep enough o turn the runnels and roots on the si r-fnco. r-fnco. These tho sun soon dried io thnt they could not sprout ngnln. He then sowed the Held with wh it nnd repented tho operation next A K-ust. K-ust. Tho pea vines were oxtermlnai nl and what milk weed was loft wo pill d up by hand There wns only an oc a-slonat a-slonat ono or two and tlieso wo belli o enmo from seed blown from otl or Holds. |