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Show I FARM NOTES I i BY GOLDEN L. STOKER I Beaver County Agent '. v Cultivation Helps In Weed Control, Con-trol, Says Agronomist Weed eradication work to be successful, should be started early and continued throughout the entire en-tire year, according to D. C. Tin-gey, Tin-gey, associate agronomist at the Utah State Agricultural college. In order to. secure the best results, Mr. Tingey says, farmers should start eradication work as soon as the first growth tippears in the spring and should continue until all growth disappears in the fall. "Effective and complete weed control measures are one of the best means of reducing costs of crop production. Farmers are cognizant of the costs and difficulty diffi-culty of controlling what we generally gen-erally term as "noxiols" weeds; morning glory, white top and others; but they have learned to live with, and therefore c-anrwt see the value of controlling, sweeds which are just as distressing although al-though possibly not so hardy", he reports. It is possible to grow crops even in the presence of certain types of weeds, but it definitely increases the value of crop land to clear out these types of noxious plants, Mr. Tineey points out. Cultivation has proved to be one of the most effective methods of controlling weeds. Good cultivation cultiva-tion as a weed control measure, however, requires plowing of the land to loosen it for the weeder, as well as regular cultivation each time weed growth appears. Appearance of weeds soon after cultivation does not necessarily mean that the measure has failed. Furthermore this should not be taken as an indication that land must be immediately re-cultivated. a e li- i i ounace growm 01 weeus can ue permitted for a week or so before cultivation is needed. Machines used for cultivation must be effective; that is, every weed must be taken out in the path of the weeder. Then, too, the weeding machine must not take too much draft power and it must be cheap and durable to fit the finances of the average farmer. An ordinary beet cultivator, with 12 to 16 inch sweep arranged to overlap, has proved to be effective, effec-tive, and rotary rod weeders do good work in reasonably loose soil. Shallow cultivation, reaching to a depth of not more than three inches, seems to be just as effective effec-tive as deeper cutting, and requires re-quires mucjh less draft power. In loose soil, it may be practical to practice deeper tillage, and this is not objectionable. . |