| Show the canada thistle originated in europe and wits brought from there to canada where it is doing immense nin crise injury detachments have ve been found sn in cache salt lake utah and carbon counties where they OR aw are entrenched trenched in along the canals and ditches canada thistle is a a perennial plant living on oil year af after ter year it ranges from arid tl tx three feet eat high with stender cender sf stalks and dry leaves whose margins have a ruffled appearance if feed infected wi with th this thistle be fed to live livestock stock it irritates their mouth it is propagated by both seeds and undorf underground round rootstock root stock and will grow in pastures pas or in tho ilie fields of any other ober farm crops it hns has quantities of stored food which makes it very re sistan t to nil all adverse condition the times to most effectually stop the growth and do away with this pest is just as ohp plant first begins begina to bl bloom oom plow up the plant n by cutting two erthree or three inches under the surface pile the plants in heaps and burn follow till this s by constant shallow cultivation so that all shooting stocks maybe may be killed before they havo to P gathers a new store oi of material thru the leaves farmers a are re coming coining to see the benefits to be derived from tile tho work of tho county demonstrators and every week more of them are arc joining the procession of progress and are getting 1 out of the old ruts there aro are still a 11 few of the old stock left who plant their potatoes in the moon and kill their hogs according to tile the signs of the tho zodiac I 1 but some som beof of those these ore are beginning to waver in the old traditions and are adopting the ne nc vr methods cju just aa un elpe experiment r dont you know v |
