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Show Ag Agents Attend Dodder School At USAC f n Logan Officers of the Uintah Basin Alfalfa Seed Growers Assn. and Robert S. Murdock, Duchesne county agricultural agent, attended attend-ed a school on Dodder Control, held recently at the experiment station of the Utah State Extension Exten-sion Service at Logan. These' officers are: Jesse Allen, Howard D. Roberts, Wilmer Murray Mur-ray and Ted ' Thomas, all of My-ton. My-ton. At Logan, they met with members mem-bers of the State Crop Improvement Improve-ment Assn., State Extension Service, Ser-vice, and Utah State Agricultural College personnel. . Other counties represented at the meeting were: Box Elder, Millard, Mil-lard, which along with Duchesne. are the three' major alfalfa seed growing counties in the state, Mr. Murdock said. Purpose of the school was to work out and formulate a program pro-gram on Dodder Control. Mr. Murdock explained that the dodder is a parasitic plant, for which there is no definite' known control. This paisitic plant is costing alfalfa alf-alfa seed growers thousands of dollars yearly in crop loss, the county agent continued. i |