Show long lived weed seeds torment weary farmer no wonder the farmer lias has ti auble to ing to crad eradicate leate weeds for dr IV V 1 beat of the michigan experimental station lias has just shown how tony long lived some of lie file seeds are arc fifty years ago he be hurled buried a lot of several different kinds of weed seeds every ten tea years some of these seeds are dug up lip and the attempt made to germinate them strange as it rally seem somi of the weed seeds which did not grow at the end of five or ton ten years germinated to some extent at the end of forty years foxtail lived for thirty years but has not been growing since two thirds of the tumbleweed tumble weed aced seeds were still lifter after forar years curled doat seed has fins a much ion longer ioner er life than might be expected antwins and was 18 per cent to in the fortieth fortl etli year several weed seeds will not live for even lye five years but a 11 great ninny of thein will retain nt at least some vitality for thirty to forty years does tills this not show how ver very y careful the farmer must be to cut the tha weeds before they have a chance to sped seed and spread many potential plants around |