Show KILLING THE MILK WEED how one farmer successfully aradi bated it from his fields with reference to a method ot ex terminating milk weed and morning glory will say that it it is the milk weed that grows from the root as well as from seed and which has the seed attached to down that scatters when the wind blows I 1 can ghe the ex we had several years ago my father had a field badly infested with such milk weeds and pea vines says a writer in prairie and he sowed it to oats cutting the oata before the milk weed was ripe enough tor the seed to scatter he plowed the ground in august when the grouns was dry going just deep enough to turn the runners and roots on the sur face these the suh soon dried so that they could not sprout again he then sowed the field with wheat and repeated the operation next aug the pea i ines were exterminated and what milk weed was left we pulled up by hand there was only an occa one or two and these we believe came from seed blown from other fields |