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Show H WEEDS IN UTAH. Hi The Mapleton, Utah, commercial club, is to appear before the legislature in an effort to promote the passage of a measure aimed , at tho destruction of noxious weeds. The farmers of Utah suffer heavy losses each year from weeds and many of the most destructive pests are sheltered in the weeds ' on farms and along the country roads. A government expert, who has studied the pests in Utah beet H I fields, declares that if the weeds were cleared from roadways and un-H un-H . oocrapied ground, there would be no widespread injury to boot K crops by prodatory insects. H One farmer in an agricultural district, nor a group of farmers, H can remedy this evil. There must be county or state supervision and H all farmers must be required to destroy noxious weeds and the county H or state must keep the highways free from weed3. |