| Show fW ARE AREt f ff t OF f mM I I Thistle Takes Up Its lis Abode In ill Parts of O utah I SHOULD BE EXTERMINATED nl 11 liar iii Ol Eddy nod lle 1 one Oil This tit seems to 1 ter Cr the still foil or of various 1101 1 III ha a 11 fool foothold th of cr this state lair f the theat at t the 1 sly br bail m ibis fall with It a Rt nI In fn nature tweeds that Intent various arlou of the the study tudY 1190 Ia the of arc land rS lt IT or of alit 1111 1 Tra n lite or nil dents I 10 keell p a u the In mon eed the t for a n a arts of of Tho ur 1311 10 the wils various and pr from Crom looking but or i 1 w re raft and were to brought In lIe or N The true truo ua na ej f the lan soon oon became lure of at IIII this species of oC two Iwo the course te feet L In the Ih a Ill 10 ripen II stint nt be an I ate ars now bristle nil OPI red pe pa 10 while 11 i prickles prickle with spill ap stages tit or growth l the plant plan Its III eater earlier be putted up 11 by the Iho rants at atthe n ran fan ot of maturity It cnn can hanily ho the Ilm Iles han bond naked by the Ibe Inlo now of IU This Is un I ba lf s ip I r r J j J JI L t I 0 r r Y Yf f 1 i r l lI lJ r I 1 S t J i 1 l t TOP BRANCHES OF NATIVE PI G WEED n Host Nearly Resembling nUl Jn ThI Natural From rom Nature by Pupils of Training School tf H an old In n a now Mil the evil In Its Incipiency nod and the tU enough hut but fully Cully der de and Ile eradication Is or Ir Irea A T The rt I ua lam I la t the turm Iuri t Ira or Ulah 0 overy Irb re Is I t Cool 1 to toot la fa und and It should bo be i lent lentIf 11 the lr Plot Paul If work lit till lays that Ihal the plant hUll has be been n In Utah a new reI mare the first specimen l that Ihal was by b any Imy hI here bro been found h by Dr Or lm Iowa toward rd curator or of the tho about three eats LIMO At that alas Ilm the Iho doctor found one or of the In th the vicinity of at Fort were then Ihen entertained that thai the teed eed would not foci nr our soil and ell mate congenial to Its lIs and der e the result Is or r today loday the 1110 plant Ilant I fa reported at many along ulong tits tift railroad k lu rach dl hM ob as td It In Prof Paul 1 aul round found It Il In Idaho and students lal t It to 10 the nature cI clam from e various or of the east each cb In hi this b city The Tho plant appears tour s cretul efula vork rapidly of or nil who n II II rid oil or II a ahe that ee tat I U usurp the he and l and IT to Iho olner or of the 0 or rilE nEw WEID wr lm It as Probably III 1873 that thaI the tho Q K r H r Hr V Vt t l lX l X X XV t t r t V i X I XI I J X 1 X t r 1 1 tr y l lr t tr ty tI r a aR r I d M s R r Jalk gib 0 1 I f oj I X v S X f I If 1 t tv JI r f 0 f r X I Iv II I v l lr 1 r J I i i 1 I 0 l I I 1 1 Photo by Johnson 0 H Io H HH PICTURE OF FULL GROWN THISTLE Oil On the Bench Near IhO II or oC lit Ihlo tur ot of Ih the DeM let ItIl Hens tl II weed appeared In this country At that thaI timo n a colony or of came over oer front southern HU anal located In South Dakota Thy They brought blought with them II a small of flax seed and waved Iwed It II In the soil Joll or their thell 1108 m nil hn It up It was mixed with I a slender reddish weed familiar enough to 10 th the peasants who did lint 1101 however take tako the trouble rouble to tl destroy thew weeds ee s Perhaps the they did lint know that in III their old home to In Russia la this wood had lon Iona been bren known al allono ono or of the tho most noxious or of vegetable peste and that o arras 1118 ot of land 1 about the la Caplan ph n sea N had been abandoned b by farmers because bernu e this weed had lit hit literally driven them out oUI H At all any rate nil all eyes eyell were blind to 10 the menace Implied In iii the or of tads veil warrior and Its Plants WoN permitted to KO go to seed eed In Iii II a tow few years It had extended beon beyond the Iho South Dakota and luul reached the plaint hero Its O career began Lute savages on the lilt war warpath path these 1 weeds were 1101 before berolo thE In n II few tew years they thoy had spread Into North Iowa and N Nebraska During time Ihl next tow OW years relUS the plant Invaded illinois Ohio and l Cobra do 10 and Inn recently engaged the tho serl ou oua attention ot of the legislatures of serious ArlouA states i In n vain efforts to get Jel rid ot It IL Now ow that It II has taken Inken until hohl In Utah Ulah there thero Is III rally ono one safe tre acid rational thing tr 10 oto kill It II out and to do 10 It now WHAT 11 LOOKS S LIED LIEDThe The weed resembles our own bu bushY but bul has smaller and more acute oute leaves anti stenis a little longer thinner and more mor arched In Inv wards than In our species Like pomp ot of our weedy plants It Is 11 II a belonging to the order known ai n pigweed family Russian tumbleweed knit I le of oC n I different species from our on tumbleweeds II such Hueh nn the Iho whim known as 1111 albs Thu Tho Russian nu thistle Ihl llo begin to torro grow us 1111 a simple and Inoffensive punt with hn and alid succulent u leaves and branches As AH the Iho plant older ohler j I Y 1 I if ifS r S r IY t a n r rt rr t r of BRANCHES OF RUSSIAN LE life Ifo Size Nature b by Pupil of 01 the tho branches spread out In 1 the leaves harden Unto Inlo Full grown rown specimens may moy a diameter lit of lIu feet lUll and most of the dr dry bushes arc oro somewhat In 1111 outline 11 dried Is III broken ort nIT from florn tho Iho rot root and then Ihen rolls before eind scattering Its 18 seeds us 1111 It II A 1 fIant Is Ie to con loin lain and thin Iho plants grow gow so 0 rapidly o as lu 10 exclude I all other terms forM lit of vegetation DnA I as II The drawings made by thin tho eighth grade pupils or Ih the training school are considering thin age of thA students who Produced them excel excellent lent representations both holh ot of the Iho BUH and of our own ova mOH anost common tumbleweed nail mill are amply amp for Ih the e or of readily the 1111 thistle Tit The photograph ot of taw tho entire plant should matte certain Ih the ot of the Russian weed to 10 the careful observe At tits season the 1 veay to truy the plants Is Isto isto to burn burll Ih them m In the renson HaHon they Ihl cnn clot ho be palled or 01 hued hoeI up 1111 huou the dl dry seed pods 1101 will viii begin to 10 open and th there r will b bs the Iho menace of a 1 possible 1 hlo or of the lI seeds eds over I thin Iho entire tote state Blass l I UI I ally IllY I bi the n 0 her fr 11 tI tle sirs firs de deer r to 10 the flit hear There 1 s II a that Ihn h not nil b be detected la In thine for foi Ines And titter that tho One In III tl dl s1 rho I Is ely elyse se It sere r el en e ery man tint II a slight or of the limits entails the Iho lo toys of his 1119 II rh rl is III always II a long waiting list of ran seed f JIw trell from frum tile and the Ihl WI can t tIt It is lit near servant II th III hr at II r halt lit of the lit n I I Is d In work or of a J tad of 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