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Show prices are obtained and leu Irrigation Irriga-tion la necessary. Then, If spring grain la plan tod earl, the first run of water la allowed to run by the head ditches au tho seeds are carried by and the farmer start In to pull the weeds a aoon aa they beKln to ahow he can be free of these peat. Thin la how the editor kept hla farm free of every kind of weed, though hla neighbors had plenty, From the large amount of rain that baa fallen In the niountalna during the past few weeka It looka aa if there would be plenty of water for fall grain. THE WEED NUISANCE But the weeds! Big tumble weeds lust going to seed were to be seen long the main canals, most of the laterals and many of the ditches, although al-though some farmers bad cleared their 1 tches of them. They are along the roads. In every uncultivated field shere the water had run and had ' ulned many a promising field of 1 train. The great bulk of these weeds 1 )d come from seeds washed down torn the canals and ditches. Home f the farm r's have been making a Ight on the weed alnre last spring ' i 'to more or less success. Others 1 ere making belated efforts to eradl- i ate them. We didn't see anyone 1 iearlng the weeds from the company I anals. We understand that they I snt find men to do the work. But mrvest time is a pretty late date for i itker the company or the farmers to I ;et busy. Work ought to bave been I tarted two months ago, and they tght sot to wait for the passsge of i i belated weed ordinance to get busy I or their own protection. I Farmers ahould plant as much fall c train as possible, as this will be cut i x fore the weeds are troublesome rwo other advaauges are that better . |