| Show CONTROL OF WILD MORNING GLORY ono ot of the worst weeds in the state of 0 utah if not cot tho the worst la Is wild morn ing glory As a matter 0 of fact the tha weed wed is so extremely hard to get rid of 01 that commonly farmers teel feet that it is useless to attempt doing so BO according to professor goo stewart ot of the utah agricultural experiment station an experiment has just been completed in chich it Is found t to be b e p possible si e to get g e t t this h weed w c e d under con los lne tea is control t ro in n 0 one s season so n a and n t to 0 e eradicate mc licato it tho the second season in a cultivated crop in certain counties in utah large of land a 0 almost compactly avor run with morning gloy glo y the weed does not spread rapidly by seed but its underground root stocks are so active and tenacious that concon a spot Is started in a field it tends to spread very rapidly and to oc cupy a considerable area of land in time taking possession of the farm unless some attempt is made to subdue it in order to understand tho the weed it Is necessary to bear in mind that it stores in long white string S t rii 2 gly alko 1 i k 0 ro root 0 to s stocks tock s large 1 a ago q quantities u a u ti tt I 1 e s 0 of f plant 1 a n t f food 0 d T these h e s s stores to r c s 0 plant food sel servo selvo vo to send up new leaves whenever the plant is cut off and to h repeat doing SQ so tor for many times unfortunately these pass considerably beyond the depth that can be reached by tillage implements ants on account of which it la Is not possible to kill hill out the weed by ordinary plowing or cultivation methods the only way to be absolutely absolutely certain of eradicating this pest Is to cut it oft off SQ so frequently and to continue tor for a long enough period tho to exhaust the plant food that Is stored in the rootstocks root stocks ten dure ent methods have beon been tried including several chemical treatments and several cultivation treatments by all odds of about tour four inches in depth or thereabouts with an ordinary implement such as a beet cultivator with knives halves on or a sort ot of a sled arrangement made put out of timber with a knife blade running three or tour four inches un der the surface where tho the post pest is thoroughly started it seems to be necessary to give up hopes of growing a crop for or one yec yea and to cultivate the ground with an implement I 1 similar ilar to thoi ones men mentioned tinned as aa frequently as any green leaves begin to be show above thurnace thur face this requires cultivation about every five to seven days clays early in the season and from ten to fifteen days as autumn approaches and the root stocks begin to be become corae exhausted all other treatments male less headway than the one described and in each case it was becs necessary sary to sacrifice the crop jn in order to get the upper hand of tho the weed one common mistake Is usually madel madei in an effort to conquer this post pest vis the farmer fanney sees no danger in letting it grow up lip a tw inc inched h e Is b before a fore it is cult hated As soon as green leavec get above the surface plant food Is added tp the Yoot tho the only hope Is to cultivate immediately ol when anything shows above the surface it is also a t mistake to withhold on dry land because it Is only by repeated growing and repeated cutting that the plant the weed spreads very rapidly and will probably great loss less in crop production and land values un less ices this pest iest is controlled we now know that tone season will kill about 95 per cent of the weeds if they are handled vigorously in the manner suggested A reasonable amount of careful hand hoeing tho the next year will complete the task there Is no other way at present known that will give equally efficient results all others taking at least two seasons or more |
