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Show Sanpete Commissioners Fix Budget for Campaign In their regular monthly meeting meet-ing today the Sanpete County Commissioners made an appropriation appropri-ation of five hundred dollars to be used in a county wide noxious weed campaign, in cooperation with all public and private . agencies agen-cies and under the general supervision super-vision of the agents of the State Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural College Extension Service. The ' commissioners expressed ex-pressed a desire to leave the outlining out-lining of ap lan of procedure and prosecution of the same, as well as the expenditure of the appropriated appropri-ated in the hands of District In-spctor In-spctor Clinton Kjar and Count Agent, C. O. Stott, who were at the meeting today. The general plan as agreed to in the meeting today that the State,, and County will go 50-50 in the freight charges in delivering the spray material to all parts of Sanpete San-pete County and on the same basis bas-is cooperate on the labor cost of applying spray to the weeds. The individual farmers on whose farms spraying is done will pay only the I cost of the spray material, which j is ten cents per pound. The Statu Department will furnish one power! spray outfit for the larger noxious I weed areas and a number of dustr ing machines for smaller, isolated areas. The county will spra roads and the state roads will be handled by the state road com- mission. Recent plans as worked out by the agents, call for the spraying oi dusting of all Canada Thistle and Percmieal sow thistle throughout the county, of all whitetop in the county outside of Fountain Green, Wales, Moroni and Chester districts, dis-tricts, of all morning glory outside of Manti and Ephraim districts. On whitetop from four to six pounds of sodium chlorate will be vsed per square rod and on the other weeds three pounds or calcium cal-cium chlorate will be used. Demonstration Dem-onstration areas will be established in various parts of the county and a careful record made of all proceedings pro-ceedings and results. |