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Show CAN KILL JUNE GRASS. June grass was unknown in this part of Utah at one time. The seed is said to havo been carried from southern Utah by sheep. ' Now the grass is everywhere on the foothills -and even in the vacant lots of the city. A. II Moves, deputy game commissioner, wlio has just returned from the Bear Lake region of northern Utah, says the farmers near Randolph have found that redtop sown on land where June grass has possession will displace the noxious growth. Fields which were rendered almost useless have been redeemed, and, one farmHn particular, partic-ular, which Mr. Moyes saw, was so completely reclaimed that, where the spear-grass formerly thrived, now a rich covering of redtop given promise of a large hay crop. The owner had Bown broadcast ten , . -.iili..: . -J W. " .-- ". f' pounds of redtop to the acre and his land which was worth only $6 an acre is now held at $20. If redtop can porform the same excellent service for the farmers farm-ers of Weber county and in addition be made to destroy the Juno grass in the vacant lots of this city, the people of this county will offer thanks to their progressive neighbors in Bear Lake Valloy whose experiments pointed the Avay. |