Show Weed Worse Than Quack Combated by Plowing Leafy spurge Is slowly Invading South Dakota and it Is worse than quack grass or sow thistle This Is the statement made recently by Dr Arthur T. T Evans head of the botany and p plant ant pathology department at South Dakota State college when a 11 farmer bro brought a sample of the weed to his office Th Thil Th weed v may be combated combated combated com com- bated by plowing It up three or four times each summer for at least three summers Leafy spurge Is a yellow yellow- ish-green ish weed and grows vs In patches about three thre feet high The farmer said his neighbor had a acre 35 field taken by the weed and that the township board was going to force him to exterminate the plant Doctor Evans warned the farmer that if it the patch was not killed the whole farm anti and adjoining ones would soon be w worthless |