Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-06-28
HOW TO KILL CACTUS.
Rules and Regulations Prescribed by
the State Board of Cactus
Commissioners.
harmonious and United Action by
the Residents of the State
the Thing Desired.
Procedure to Be Followed When
Cactus on Land Becomes
Troublesome.
What Must BE Done.

WHAT MUST be Done.
Secretary Buck Of the cactus commits
sion is sending out copies of the rules
and regulations for the eradication of
cactus with requests to editors of news
papers that they be published for the
benefit Of each community. II Is de-
sired that farmers be informed as to the
means to be taken to clear the weed off
their land, and that, by mutual and con-
certed effort, the work be accomplished.
The rules in question are embodied in a
pamphlet gotten out by the commits
sioners. as follows:
ANY owner or occupant of any land in
any county commissioners district or any
citizen OF such district may, at any time,
complain IN writing to the commissioner
for such district of the existence therein of
Russian thistles or French weeds:
l. On any lands, describing the same.
2. On any railroad right Of way. desig-
mating as nearly as may be the locality.
8. On any highway, road, street, way or
trail in use by the public, whether such be
a public highway or not, designating the
locality.
RULE 2.
ANY county commissioner upon receipt
OF such written complaint or notice as pro-
vIded in sections Sc and Z of the law, must
proceed at once in accordance with the re-
qu1rements of such sections and of these
rules and regulations. He and the county
auditor must give notice as therein re-
CURED. but destruction Of the Russian
thistles and French weeds complained of
shall in such notice be required to begin
and to be diligently prosecuted until COM
plete, not earlier than the dates or times
herein below set forth as to the respective
cases; but If such notices are served within
ten days preceding such dates, then such
destruction shall be required by such
notices to begin and to be diligently prose-
cuted within ten days from the date when
such service is completed. If such notices
are served earlier than ten days before
such date, then such notice shall require
such destruction to begin and be diligently
prosecuted on the date specified as that not
earlier than which such destruction shall
begin.
l. AS to lands planted with crops in
tended to be cultivated, such destruction
shall begin within ten days after proper
service. of notice and be continuous and
complete until such crops are harvested,
and in no case to cease until October 1 of
each year.
2. AS to all wild lands (the title of which
is not in the United States or in this stated,
as to broken lands not in crop, as to aban-
doned fields one broken up and as to fire
breaks described in Section 26 Of the law,
such destruction shall begin within ten
days after proper service of notice, as ap-
piled to French weeds, but not earlier than
August l as to Russian thistles.
8. AS to lands planted to small grains
millet, grass, peas. buckwheat, fodder
crops and all such crops planted and not
intended to be cultivated-such destruction
shall begin within ten days after service of
commissioners notice as regards French
weeds, but not earlier than August Is in
any year as applied to Russian thistles.
4. Any and all Russian thlsGIes and
French weeds found upon the right of way
of any railroad shall be destroyed or such
destruction commenced within ten days
after service Of county auditors notice, as
provided in Section 6 of the law, as applied
to French weeds, but not earlier than Au-
gust l OF each year as regards Russian
%thistles, and such destruction must be
faithfully prosecuted until complete.
RUIZ 8.
Ii, after proper notice, the owner or oc-
cupant OF any land, or. any railroad COM
pany occupying or having in use or control
and right of way, fail within the time re-
CURED to begin and diligently prosecute
the destruction-of the weeds complained
OF, then it becomes the duty of the county
commissioner within whose district the
property complained of lies to at once carry
on such destruction.
AS to highways, roads, streets, ways and
trails in public use, whether such trails be
public highways or not, as described in
Section 6 of the law, such destruction shall
begin within ten days after complaint is
made to the commissioner Of such district
as regards French weeds, but not earlier
thansAugust l in any year as applied to
Russian thistles.
1t shall be the duty of each county COM
missioner in his district, after inquiry and
examination, as provided in Section IL of
the law, to SO prosecute the destruction,
until completed, of Russian thistles and
French weeds on highways, roads, streets,
ways or trails IN public use, whether such
trails be public highways or not, as pro-
vided in Section IL of the law, so that on
September l of each year. as regards Rus
sian thistles, and November l of each year
as to French weeds, no such thistles or
weeds shall be found growing thereon.
RULE 6.
Between April ! and November l, as ap-
piled to French weeds, and between August
l and September / of each year, as regards
Russian thistles, the county commissioners
shall examine, or cause to be examined, and
shall destroy, or aus to be destroyed, be-
fore going to seed, all French weeds and
Russian thistles found i'll their respective
districts on wild or broken land, title of
which is in the United States or this state.
leased land owned by the state not in crop,