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Show Help Defeat The Axis By Fighting Weeds Fight weeds and help defeat the Axis, says Alphonzo Christensen, chairman of the Cache County A. A. A. committee, in calling attention atten-tion losses sustained each year by farmers through infestations of such plants as morning glory, whitetop, sow thistle and knapweed'. knap-weed'. Mi-. Christensen said that the many acres of noxious weeds in Cache county are a serious menace men-ace and a threat to reaching production pro-duction goals in the Food for Freedom program. Under the provisions of the 1942 program, any part or all of the soil building allowance set up for farms in the program may be earned for controlling Canadian thistle, wild morning glory, white-top, white-top, leafy spurge, whorled milkweed, milk-weed, perennial ragweed, Russian ground cherry, poverty weed, blue knapweed, perennial sow thistle, flowering lettuce and perennial snap dragon or toad flax. Two rates of pay have been set up; 3 cents a pound for the use of approved chemicals or $7.50 per acre where approved tillage methods meth-ods are used. Chemical methods acceptable are those used under the State Weed Control project. Approved tillage methods include the preparation of the ground by plowing so that cultivation may be readily effected. Cultivation should begin early in the spring and continue con-tinue at intervals of 10 to 15 days through .the summer. The length of the interval may be determined by the rate of regrowth. Cultivation Cultiva-tion must be done with effective weeders that cut off rather than mash the weeds along the ground. |