Show Weed Control is Vital for Security Of Basin Farms Farm FarmBY BY RUSSELLR RUSSELL R n KEETCH County Farm Agent A majority of farmers have found out that they are not on the fron fran frontier frontier tier any more and Individually they theydon theydon theydon don t need shot dead-shot trigger fin fin- fingers fingers fin fingers gers in order to get along They have soft pedaled their Individual Individual- Individualism ism inn and have started to make over their time old-time feeling of neighbor neighbor- Uness hiness into big scale cooperation j In this way do we expect results I from group action In control of our abundant resources under the I agricultural conservation program Records indicate that 1050 farm farm- farmers farm II ers era of County are cooper cooper- cooperating cooperating cooperating in one large national pro pro- program program gram which allows farmers to pro pro-I- bet bet- better bettar bet better ter tar their conditions and under under- understandings understandings understandings standings which v gives a more in Intelligent recognition of his nee needs and gives gies him means by which to adapt individualism with cooper cooper- cooperation cooperation atlon The conservation program per per- permits per permits mits rails farmers to look ahead and an opportunity to study markets soil soU fertility domestic consumption II foreign trade farm Income and continued security for himself and Security of at the farmers of this county will wm be accomplished wholly by measures indi farmers and cooperative farmers art are taking to control noxious weeds eds Weeds can be controlled by individual effort plus cooperation of neighbors with state and county assistance The majority of or weeds now found en cn n farms are relative e small ir acreage but need ne-ed attention this I bj some means of control Two To methods of control I am suggesting are 1 Use of chemi- chemi chemical l cat cal weed teed killer Uller applied at nt the rate of four or five pounds per square rod of ot territory ter infested applied I eIther dry or in vet et solution spray spray- sprayed sprayed sprayed ed If It applied in vet wet solution oat one pound of chemical to one gal gal- galIon galIon gal tIon Ion of v water ater This chemical we hope will be made available at the I coun county ty court ourt house through a coop coop- cooperative cooperative cooperative program which la Is proposed by the state crop improvement as- as assocIation as I In connection with local This committee I proposes 10 o hae have the state stand I Continued on page age five 1 i I r rJ n CON CONTROL is VITAL FOR RA BASIN HASIN 11 FARM II I Continued facia page pape pl e out om third one-third the the county count y third lone third one and the pro property own own- owner own jer r er third one-third This prop proposal l Is not definite report hit bit a definite re pert port ture will be made In the near tu-I tu fu- fu future The second method which 1 hail hail- vidual farmers can put into effect t Immediately is la that of cultivation This Tills method c for a n plowing or of orthe c the soil soli h n In proper moisture p condition In ha order to get a good loose loamy h formed farmed on top of the land This mulch on the surface of or the earth should be cultivated every ten o cr 0 twelve days to a depth of from fr m four to six sl inches Cultivating machines can i ht-i be built at a very nominal cost which are very effective on largo large plots of o I land of one or more acres In size The land under cultivation c Iso be Irrigated In order to give weeds Eeds a chance to spend all 1111 their In reproducing themselves then they are weakened by I the stems and not the to manufacture starch which Is the main otis ork oft the I root sy tem In other words thE method Is simply a starvation practice t s and anti results in ino o n pratt practices e will be achieved only on- on only ly by the work cork and regularity With ith which it is 18 administered |