Pleasant Grove Review | 1938-07-08 | Page 8 | State Weed Supervisor Tours Utah County

State Weed Supervisor Tours Utah County Following a tour of inspection of more than 900 acres now under cultivation cul-tivation in Utah county's weed eradication project, George L. Hob-son Hob-son of Salt Lake City, state weed supervisor, said if Utah is to save agriculture, a well planned weed eradication program over a long period of time must be carried out. Mr. Hobson visited communities in both the north section under the supervision of Hyrum A. Anderson of Lehi, and the southern section under supervision of Burnell Hansen Han-sen of Spanish Fork in company with state and local agricultural officials. More than 400 W P A workmen are now employed in this project along with three tractor crews employed em-ployed by Utah county: Land in the north section of the county under un-der the program is in excellent condition, con-dition, Mi-. Hobson stated. Besides the cultivation work by tractors, there is considerable acreage acre-age of preparatory work being done on canal and stream banks by hand. Soon, these crews will be used for spraying the weeds with chemicals, which will be furnished by the state board of agriculture. On private lands, the cost of this chemical work will be charged half to the land owner and half to the state, he said. This first spray program pro-gram will be merely seed prevention work and the bulk of the chemical program will be done in August or September, according to S. R. Bos- well of Provo, county agent. The program as now carried on includes two activities. Tire first, cultivation by power machines, wherever power can be used, and treatment with chemicals on land which is inaccessible for cultivation.