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Show Farmers May Now Get After Weeds Land Removed From Corn and Wheat Provides Good Opportunity. VNU Service. An exceptional opportunity for farmers to control "aful la offered in the removal of laige acreages of land from wheat and corn under the governments plan of controlled production. Such weeds are field bindweed or wild morning glory, white weed or perennial peppergrass, poverty weeds, Canada thistle and Russian knapweed may be controlled or eradicated by cultivating often enough to prevent any green growth appearing above the surface of t ie ground. Clean cultivation Is the cheapest method, of eradication available at present. This usually requires cultivating cultivat-ing once a week for two consecutive consecu-tive years, although cultivations may be less frequent as the plants are weakened. Oue year of clean cultivation has produced desired results re-sults under some conditions, weakening weak-ening weeds so that a heavy sowing of alfalfa has smothered them out completely. However, there Is always al-ways a chance that some plants will survive under this method. These weed pests defy ordinary control methods because of the huge amount of food material held In reserve re-serve in their extensive, creeping root systems. Usual cultural practices, prac-tices, where care is not taken to keep green growth from appearing, often increases rather than decreases de-creases the growth and spread of the weeds. Clean cultivation has been hindered hin-dered in the past by the hesitancy to take land out of production, although al-though crops produced In weedy areas usually are of poor quality and low yield. Now that farmers . are being paid rentals by the government gov-ernment to keep land out of corn and wheat, or the production of any crop competing with any basic commodity, com-modity, an unusual opportunity presents pre-sents itself for eradicating injurious in-jurious weeds by clean cultivation. Weed eradication will Increase the value of the land and remove a source of possible further damage. |