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Show WEEDS ARE COSTLY Weeds are a costly nuisance in ererv community. They not only : mar the beauty of streets and landscapes, land-scapes, but in farms and lots they rob the soil of food that should go to the building of valuable crops and often become downright pests and in some few cases are real serious menaces men-aces to economic possession of the land. Many of our leading communities com-munities are recognizing the necessity neces-sity of continual and systematic weed fighting and are already planning weed campaigns for this season. Here in St. George the campaigns of past years are beginning to show results. re-sults. A few years back, a person could hardly get along some streets for the weeds that used to block them. The expense of cleaning the streets is now a very small item compared com-pared with what it was then. We understand from the county crop pest inspector that Hurricane, New Harmony and some of the other settlements are active in cleaning up the weeds in their communities. It is to be hoped that the movement will spread to all the communities and fields in the county. We understand under-stand that some of the canals and field streets are the greatest harbingers harbin-gers of weeds that we have in the county. It is time for the canal and field companies to begin to plan for systematic fighting of the weeds. |