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Show WEED CONTROL ' PROGRAM IS NOW UNDERWAY Reed Bird, Springville, And H. A. Anderson Of Lehi, Appointed County Supervisors The 1945 weed control program began this week with the appointment appoint-ment of H. A. Anderson of Lehi and Reed Bird of Springville, as county weed control supervisors. The supervisors are now working and are accepting applications for the cultivation program. -New information announced recently re-cently by the Utah Experiment Station shows that good results are being obtained in the control of noxious weeds such as white top or morning glory, when the control program was begun after the harvest of an early maturing crop. Some of the crops suggested are : fall wheat, fall or spring barley, peas and early corn. The land should be plowed as soon as the crop is harvested and cultivation culti-vation begun at once and continued contin-ued through the year, then the land can be planted next year to an early maturing crop, according to the supervisors. Notices are being sent out to property owners this week who have had land in the cultivation program at least two years, advising ad-vising them that their land is now ready for cropping. These land owners are advised to plant row crops and to watch for the appearance of any plants which might come from seeds which have been dormant during the cultivation period. The county weed supervisors will check these fields with the property owners for new plants, according to S. R. Boswell, county agent. A total of 396 acres which were cultivated the last two years are released for cropping this year. Since the weed control program began in 1936 there have been 1,947 acres of land returned to cropping free from weeds, as a result re-sult of the weed control program. |