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Show Prices On Weed Spraying Set It Sroup Meeting The price per acre and by gallon gal-lon of chemicals for spraying noxious nox-ious weeds during the coming season sea-son were discussed at the March 14 meeting of the Duchesne County Coun-ty Noxious Weed Control committee. commit-tee. Robert S. Murdock, county agent ag-ent and secretary of the committee reports the following regulations were adopted at this meeting: $1.50 an acre will be charged for application where the land owner or lessee furnishes the spray material. When the county furnishes fur-nishes the' technical material, it would be $1.50 an acre for application appli-cation plus 500 a quart of technical techni-cal material used, (one quart fluid measure equals one pound' of technical tech-nical 2,4-D material). The rate of charges for. spot spraying would be' determined on the concentration of the mix that was being used at that time. When one pound of material was being used the charge would be 60 a gallon; gal-lon; two pounds material used it would be' 100 a gallon;, three pounds material, 150 a gallon; four pounds material, $200 a gallon; five pounds material, 250 a gallon. The above schedule is where the spray is furnished by the. county. Where the chemical is not furnished furnish-ed by the county, a flat rate of 50 a gallon would be made for application. The committee went on record' as favoring that the spray operator must obtain a license' li-cense' for spraying. Another item, discussed by the weed control committee was salary sal-ary and expenses of the spray operator. op-erator. The committee' went on record as favoring $250 a month (6 days a week) being paid for the months indicated by the executive committee, plus 60 a mile on private pri-vate - automobile when the operator oper-ator is spraying a distance from home where he feels it is not practical prac-tical to '-'drive' the heavy" spray truck back and forth. The committee-voted also to pay the operator- $1.25 an hour when ' he is working on; an hourly u basis "and the time to be determined by ; the executive committee.- - -:' : - |