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Show Sow Mustard to Prevent Flood, Following Fire In an effort to prevent flood damage dam-age to land recently robbed of Its vegetation veg-etation by forest (ires, the United States forest service Is starting In to cover it with a "mustard plaster." To speed the revegetation of 3,000 acres of forest and brush land of the Arroyo Seco watershed in the Angeles National forest ln southern California, which burned over late In July, forest service workers are seeding it to mustard, a weed which roots quickly and grows rapidly even under unfavorable conditions. They are also planting wild sunflowers. sunflow-ers. A similar remedy was successful suc-cessful In holding soil on parts of the great Santa Earbara burn In 1032. Establishment of any kind ef green cover greatly reduces the rapid rap-id run off and washing of the loose soil by the winter rains, a situation which caused the disastrous Montrose Mont-rose flood near Los Angeles last New Year's eve, when many lives were lost. The cities below the recent re-cent burn have the additional protection pro-tection afforded by the Devil's Gate dam at Pasadena. Much of the seeding seed-ing will be done by the Civilian Conservation Con-servation corps, working under forest for-est service direction. |