Show MOST PROFITABLE TO I EXTERMINATE WEEDS i i Of Great Importance in Management Management Management Manage Manage- ment of Pastures Plant Plante Are Unsightly and Occupy Land That Should Be Engaged In Production of Valuable Forage Weeds Crowd Out Grasses Prepared by the United d States Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of or Agriculture The we weed d problem as It relates to the handling of or pastures I Is a n vital one as 08 weeds are ore not only unsightly but buti i they also occupy land that should be engaged In the production of or valuable I forage Mage This Is wh why It pays the farmer i ito to battle bottle the wee weeds s ns os Insistently as OS I during the grass gross season Some Somo I farmers armel'S keep n a mowing machine running run run- ning over their pastures most of or the summer Bummer with er very satisfactory results result Often weeds Indicate depleted soil fer fer- The poorest soils have havo more moret I t I I J t. t Keeping the Corn Crop Clean w weeds eds than tame grasses while on the richer soils the tame grasses grosses tend to crowd out the we weeds ds In many Instances In stances a top dressing of ot stable ma mo cure nure or the feeding of cattle during the winter on a piece of ot land infested with which is common In some lome sections of the blue grass are effective in the extermination of ot this pest peat Applications of ot acid phosphate or nitrate of soda alone or in combination combination combi comb I. I nation have also been efficient In the I eradication of ot in addition to improving the stands of ot blue grass and white clover Under existing conditions con I it is profitable to apply between between between be be- tween and pounds of ot acid phosphate an acre every five years on the ordinary grass blue blue grass pastures |