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Show WILL ERADICATE THISTLE. Farm Demonstrator to Secure Help From County to Destroy Pert. Special to The Tribune. OCSDEN. Aug. S.--After twenty years of Individual effort to prevent the spread of the only known patch of "anada thistle In Weber count y, Itrs Peterson, now TS ytfnrs of ago , nd a resident of Hun'.s-vlllf, Hun'.s-vlllf, pro:a hlv will receive aid from the Weber county commissioners, Preston Thomas, the rec.uuiv appointed farm demonstrator, h.as taken up the fluht to eradicate the dangerous thistle pest from the county and he. w ill appeal to the commissioners tomorrow to provide a means of combating the growth where it 1p found on public property. According to Mr. Thonms. the only paten of thistle he has so far discovered is a small one at Huntsville, partly on land belonging to Mr. Peterson and partly part-ly on the public highway. For twenty years, according to the farm demonstrator. demonstra-tor. Mr. Peterson has kept the thistle growth from going to seed, thus pr-v. pr-v. ntine Its aprt-ad. In the period widen Mr. Peterson has done such effective woik tho thistle could have spread to every part of Ouden valiev If allowed to seed, accord UiR- to Mr. Thomas. The farm demonstrator Is a1o putting on a strenuous campaign against tKe potato blight In this county, few fields being free of the disease. He is also nd-vlsirg nd-vlsirg the farmers on the best methods bv wTiich to combat iha.Mfah'j. weevil. |