| Show Urges Planting of Weeds to Cover Dust Storm Area of West LANT weeds This seemingly seemingly seemingly seem seem- P PLANT heretical suggestion is offered by Prof Paul B. B Sears botanist of the University of Oklahoma as possible answer to the challenge of ot plow ripped scourged drouth-scourged wind-drifted wind lands In the West IVest Plant Ilant weeds says Professor Sears and he points out wh why It la Is vital that some cover er no matter what be developed elope here without dela delay Nature has furnished a a. hint Throughout this region after after af af- af ter the drouth was v well begun the despised Russian thistle did dd so well that It was often the only plant available for stock feed Instead of seeding the area with costly grass seed whose success Is a gamble It might be sensible to mix In a good proportion of weed seeds If It the land hand Is abandoned weeds will be the first cover anyhow any any- 1 how bow and as as s we have hn seen they are area area b a a transient affair at best preparing prepare ing lag the way for the better kinds of Jt t plants Lest we should think Professor Scars Scars' proposal too daring he hastens hastens hastens has has- tens to offer a precedent precedent always always a n consoling thought to the conservatism conservatism conser conser- In Ingrained even eyen In pioneers and experimenters Actually the method Is not new There Is a brilliant example of ot Its 7 use ise on the bare clay slopes of of the they y huge buge Ohio conservancy dams darns north of Da Dayton ton which today are arc held In perfect condition by a dense well developed de sod The success of this plant cover er was Insured from the start b by the deliberate use of the cheapest weediest mixtures of grass and clover clo seed that could be obtained i |
