Show when burning trash many farmers are tempted to burn the weeds and trash along their fences to destroy weed seeds and the eggs and larvae of insect pests such burning will help to some extent although most of the eggs and larvae are in the ground safely below the heat zone it should be kept in mind however that burning oft off a heavy growth of grass or weeds under a galvanized barbed or woven wire fencing will generate genenive gen enite heat beat enough to melt or blister the zinc galvanizing and will materially shorten the life of the fencing if it seems necessary to burn the fence rows it Is ad advisable viable to take down the fencing burn the trash disk the fence row thoroughly see that the corner posts are solid and well braced then the fence tightly american agriculturist |