Show WEEDS INCREASE ON UTAH FARMS SAYS EXPERT we have been infighting weeds far a long time tim and yet our noxious weed pitches p itches continue to inC increase Tease in both size and number professor j T C hogenson extension agronomist of the extension service observes observe tho the time andrace and pace to begin ta to fight weeds is et at planting time awl and with the seed selected for platting plat ning many formers plant more weed se seed with their crops than they can possibly destroy through their weed killing processes professor profess or hokenson hogenson points out the to the problem lern pes ies eventus ly only in the planting i 0 7 good clean seed farmers in ae ate northern section of utah bought alfalfa seed from a trucker because they could b buy uy it from fram him for 25 cents per hundred pounds cheaper than they could purchase it elsewhere al mst st of c the farmers planted this seed without giving a thought to its purity one caruer however after examining axa laxa mining the aee seed resli that it did not 1 ook iut ju t RO io one he called the county agert the abent found that this thi particular lot of alfalfa seed ird from 90 to white top tip and wil morning glory seeds feeds per pound or en enough gh to plant from 1300 to 1800 noxious ous weed seeds on every acra of ground where this seed was P aate cl 1 these farmers saved a few dimo by purchasing this cheap seed ed at b ut they have lest hundreds hurd reds sf f collais through the decreased value of fu true crops and have made for themselves and their posterity poat erity an aiosi almost i ardless job of ridding their a fa farms of the weed mccance mc rie nance 1 l |