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Show Mapping War on Crop Pests j William Peterson, seated,' and B. L. Farandsen ex- 4 amine report of.' weed control work at meeting. , '. ' "l ,X . ' i w Weed Supervisors Propose Threshing Machine Control County Officials May Request Next Session of Legislature to Enact Law County weed supervisors and county commissioners from all sections of Utah Wednesday urged that the next state legislature legis-lature enact laws providing for control of threshing machines if it is found that the state board of agriculture cannot effect the necessary control under the existing antiweed statutes. The action was taken at a meeting meet-ing In the house of representatives chamber in the state capitol, with William Peterson, director of extension ex-tension service at the Utah State Agricultural college and chairman of the state weed committee, presiding. pre-siding. A working program for 1940 was outlined, and reports on progress made In weed eradication in 1939 were heard. Speakers Included George L. Hobson, supervisor for the weed program in the state department of agriculture; Dr. R. J. Evans and D. C. Tingey, agronomists for the Utah agricultural experiment station; sta-tion; David F. Smith, state commissioner com-missioner of agriculture; Dr. R. H. Walker, director of the experiment station; Darrell J. Greenwell, state W P A administrator: DeLore Nichols, Davis county agent; Mark Gardner, W P A zone engineer, and A. G. Kilburn, executive assistant for the A A A in Utah. A committee on weed legislation was to be appointed during the late afternoon of the one-day session. |