Show fahmer WHITES ON menice of WHITE TOP IN in looking over the fields of 0 west millard county one bees sees many die dis N heartening sights beautiful level i fields of some of the finest soil in this locality Is becoming so badly in tested with white top that the own ers seem to hare have lost all interest whatever wha teven in trying ta check its spread again beautiful fields of alfalfa with only a half dozen rather small v patches of white top yet nothing A being done to stop it from going to seed when two pl owings each year will nil prevent it from seeding thus saving the rest of the farm tor for many years but if those few patches are allowed to seed it will only be a a i 4 matter of a very few years until the white top will be scattered all ov er the field how well many of us remember when white top was first getting a start on the dean peterson place today there are dozens ot of farms that have acres of 0 solid white lop iop where nothing else grows what are we going to do about it let it go another ten years and halt half the farms of the county will be overcome it will be along almost every irrigate ing ditch and idle field and be at a point where it will be almost immoss ibel to clean up lip at present it isn t so difficult but that it could be conquered but each year left its ser piousness ious ness increases in multiple pro portions if we don t do something to at least stop it from seeding we 11 find ourselves living in what Is virtually a white top bed and we 11 find that handicap very burdensome J I 1 am informed that there Is a strip I 1 e t ip p near stockton that is 14 miles long and reaches across the valley k from mountain to mountain that IOU K has developed in only a matter of a few years it Is practically all on wiste ground worth from 4 to 6 an acre of course it spreads on ir righted land just the same only fast er aid ai d unless we do something to check its rapid spread in this vicin ity wo we 11 find the county coming into posse of a tremendous amount of land that has been rendered value less or that carries a weed infestation mortgage of about 70 per acre ag against dinst it experts tell us that it is possible t to learn to live with white top by glowing certain crops and practicing early cultivation etc but 1 am q alte certain they will all agree that alfalfa seed isn t one of the crops jj that can be grown our set up la Is V different from that of any other part of the state no other crop has brought nearly as much money into this vicinity as has alfalfa seed but even it if we get bo so we wo can grow big kropt again they will be valueless unless we are able to find sale for them I 1 am no pro phet butyl bui will predict with all sin carity that we will encounter tremendous difficulty as soon as a few lots with white top seed in it ge get on the market how are we going to keep the white top seed out who is going to thresh these white top infested fields what will the next farmer do who threshes behind one of these fields 4 even though he lias has no white top on his farm his seed may show white top if he is careless who he thresh es after i getting back to what could and should be done I 1 would like to make a few suggestions in its present stage it presents a very difficult task even for temporary control to say nothing of the problem of eradication the longer left the more dif ficula it becomes therefore let us all make a drive this year and not let a sing single I 1 e p patch atch go to seed it if we stop v everything from frim seeding I 1 believe within two or three years practically every farmer will cooperate and well mell stamp out this terrible infestation that is creeping upon us let lot each and every framer in millard copney malter malce it his duty to see that no IN white hite top goes to seed on his farm and if his neighbor has more than tie he can handle help his neighbor out a little it will be the means of sav in ing his own farm as well as his net ghiors furthermore Futher more it anyone haa more white top than he can possibly plow before it will go to seed it would be well to get at it with mowing machine and it if nothing else inow mow the seed oft off before it gets rips sam hales deseret |