Show local farin notes ee uita kt bw lew mar price county agent A farm heavily infested with noxious weeds Is already ed with a first mortgage A part of the effort of every farmer who grows plants it to eradicate or keep under control the weeds or plants out of place it is unusual to sect a crop that has no foreign plants the work necessary to eradicate weeds depends on how well they have been controlled in the ordinary process of farming the effort necessary to control weeds in a growing crop is clearly measurable as the annual interest on the weed mortgage ge on the farm if the methods used in controlling the weeds requires a constant amount of labor each year the mortgage is maintained intact and ho bo part of the principal is paid off tf if the weeds are increasing or more noxious types are appearing on the farm the mortgage is increasing and the loan or sale value of the farm Is measured according to the mortgage of weeds it is the first mortgage when banks and loan companies begin to make a measure of the weeds relationship to the farms before giving a loan it is time to take notice 0 of f what this mortgage really is A hirm farm badly infested with noxious weeks already has a first mortgage and many banks and loan companies refuse to take tho the second mortgage on such ground the rate of interest paid on the mortgage of weeds is the percentage of total effort in growing the crop which is to control the weeds one authority has as placed the percentage of effort as follows growing winter whet wheat 7 to 0 o 8 per cent potatoes 8 to 12 corn 6 to 10 spring grain 12 to 16 truck crops 12 to 20 1 these computations are made on growing annual weeds but inthe if the ground Is infested with perennials the percentage will be higher the weeds most dreaded are the biennials bien nials and the perennials peran nials the former being especially deceiving the perennials peran nials spread both by seed ond by root and are most persistent persi stant those already started and having a foothold foot hold hola in beaver county are commonly known as morning glory whitetop white top milk weed burdock and possibly some canadian thistle it is the intention of the county commissioners in co opera tion with the state board of agriculture ture to be very strict in the control and attempt ting to eradicate these weeds from the county this year yea r all noxious weeds willbe will be cleaned up up on roadsides and nd public domains domain and the property owners will be held responsible for the same diligence in cleaning up the weeds with in their bounds this is a necessary action in order to prevent a condition similar to that in some of our neighboring counties where thousands and thousands ands of dollars are eing being b blent annually now in an effort to hold in check the ravages of the weed pests they have given ten noxious weed commandments such as thou not by neglect permit whitetop white top to multiply itself its seeds are as the sands of the sea and it advances like afire a fire in dry grass thou not suffer the wild morning glory to produce its seeds it is an abomination unto thy neighbor and to the people of thy land if ye fail in this ye will be like unto him that loweth the zephyr and the hurricane ate plan now for next winter atin ration beaver valley farmers are fast sl coming coining interested in the dalr dairy yh imi ness nesa A great impetus has been beell 6 gna the business recently recent fy in the pro hect of a better ma market ket and in ii addition of or head of bred and high grade cows to the ui 0 CM already owned and milked milk edin in the ol 01 ley the most success successful fall and w satisfactory way to ta product produce milk kulii by feeding home grown feeds ithac have to be purchased by y tin average farmer fanner art not usually b eded in the ration ot of his dairy to cwi moat farmers who are milking to have A aa few acres that they to coa well afford to plant in barley oro or cat to include lri in the dairy ration nei im winter good brebt barley will alel aldi from 60 to bushels per sat tri rhen mix mixed edwith with oiher oher grains nalta ak a very profitable addition to th ration of the milk iilo cow |