| Show Noxious Weeds Are Enemy of Farming Poisoning of Plants Arc Methods of Control Clyde District Agriculture Noxious weeds arc the enemy of It Is estimated that they arc exacting a toll from the farmer's income than all crop They have many ways or slipping through the boundaries of the farm and establishing themselves in the seeds are carried by birds and in the furs and pelts of in irrigation in other straw and and some like the Perennial Sow Thistle can be carried by the These innocent enough looking in the form of seed find a home in the soli of where they quickly develop Into a plant with an enormous root system capable of working into th soil for several feet In where they are able to compete with and drive out cultivated This alone Is but they also have a more deadly ability ol sending up new plants from the which In turn establish ir root systems and then send up new plants from their root Thus we see that although a noxious weed has the top removed often enough to keep it seeding that it continues to spread out in a circle occupying the soil and killing out the Noxious weeds can live over a period of many years as they arc in Control There are two methods of con starvation of their great root and the of their great root sy In order to starve the root one must understand the living habit of the It is briefly The tout hairs absorb the food out of the soil in a raw This raw food is carried through the center of the stem to the leaves where by action of sunlight it Is manufactured into food that the plant can use and this manufactured food is used by the plant in the growing of the and the root Remember the plant is unable to use the food material in the raw state as it is absorbed by the soil and the is done in the therefore if you cut off the stem and leaves the root system won't be able to get manufactured 1 food that it can use if vr i this stem off the root will have to reserve supply to send Ln other and then if this stem the root will to call on its reserve to another If this practiced regularly at the vals of approximately days for two to two and years the root system will starve to This is called the method and is generally Sn mended in patches of onlo acre or ail Poisoning consists of lissome chemical into the penetrates and kills the root rl This method Is more i and should only be small patches or along or other places where it u cult to m- Before any work done the weed supervisor sWu be contacted for advise recommendations carried |
