Show NEW MENAGE CAUSES CONCERN AMONG I 1 COPY U S department of agriculture bureau of plant industry washington D C nov 9 1936 peppard seed company station A kansas city mo gentlemen there has been r lo 10 this 4 division your indu y of october ato er 20 10 concert ning a weed taken take a from t the he alfalfa fileds in utah this weed has been identified aa as Is relatively a castr bassia and Is a relatively new species in the united states having been first reported from nevada in 1922 it la Is now believed to occur in all states west of kan sas bassia Is to an annual plant belonging to the goosefoot famil and closely related to and often confused with the common summer cypress buring bush or tire fire weed me ve have been recoiling rec hing an ail increasing number lumber of complaints of mexican fire weed from the great plains and ana rod mountain states but we are adt always certain whether bas ala or 13 1 meant the weedy habits ot of both genera aie much alike those of common goosefoot goose toot all are annual plants re producing entirely by means of its seeds and there are perennial bochlas these are not ordinarily as troublesome as the annual si 91 ecles both bassia and thrive un det der conditions that cause a heavy growth of russian thistle goosefoot and pigweed they endure both a dinuth and alkali and are very likely to come in grat quan quantities tits when other plant growth is depressed by iry weather or by the rise of 0 alkali in the soils they are eaten readily by stock there has been an enora a increase in the he abundance of ot these weeds duraine the past four or five years it is very iery likely to be troublesome chibly in new of alfalfa and ff oil er forage crops or in ot of spring grains where the latter are suffering from drouth it should not be troublesome in cultivated areas that are gian reasonably good care the only suggestion that we can ran gae to alfalfa growers Is to avoid planting alfalfa on land known to td have produced seeds of any of these weeds at al least until the seeds have been worked out of the soil by a few years of cultivation commercial seed of alfalfa la Is likely to contain seeds of bassia in just about the same manner aa as it contains seeds of russia thistle and pigweed yours very turly L W kephart senior agronomist this weed has the local name tf bt smother weed end and can be scan along most fence rows and in large patches in some fields t misa miss alica alice parker returned to san francisco this week after a visit heie heze with her parents mr and mrs burton parker miss louise swenson and miss ruth clayton from the high school bacul I 1 ty spent the week end their parents miss swenson in prove provo and misa miss clayton in silt lake city they made the trip with coach jay tol man who went on to his new home in logan ja at the B Y U at prove provo the pro tram gram for assembly on friday ed se several eral numbers from millard county students As as follows an in dian than dance by lda whicker quartet by scott george avard rigby p amos jellins and smith adiar two selections on the saw by iliff jettery a vocal solo by gordon chris bonsen a reading by glenna wood a saxophone sax aphone duet by merlin christensen and elvid stuck and the concluding number a piano duet by ralph kirkham and aaron jones |