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Show Losing Battle Is Fought In Alsace Against Weed BASEL, SWITZERLAND. Any wind from Alsace and the Vosges is an ill wind for thousands of Swiss farmers. War drove Alsatian and Vosges farmers away from their fields after the 1939 harvest and they couldn't, get back for 1940. What once were rich fields now are forests of weeds, going to seed. The winds waft the seeds for miles, with no regard for frontiers. Farmers Farm-ers all over northwestern Switzerland Switzer-land are fighting a losing battle against weeds in hitherto immaculate immacu-late fields. |