The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-07-13
Destroying Morning Gloriss.

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II. Il. Pmnoll. Edgar County. ILL
nois. You cant plow them out, but
turn in the sheep and morning glorleA
will disappear.
Prof. T. l.. Lyon, Nebraska Agrl-
cultural College: We have found an
other crop the best means of exterml-
mating morning glories. 1t is almost
impossible to cultivate them out.
w. d. Massie, Pike County, Illinois,:
No one seems to know how to ex-
terminate morning glories; they seem
to be a great volunteer crop in all
fields.
Prof. G. E. Adams, Rhode Island Ex-
pertinent Station: The only satisfac-
tory method of discriminating morning
glories is to give clean culture for at
,, least two years, commencing early In
| the season, and not permitting the
young plants to get start.
]. A. Widney, Henry County, I'LL
nois: Use a cuitivator; plow them
both ways and pull them out in the
hill. Pillow stubble ground only in the
fall, and it will about use up the
morning glory vines. Another way Is
to seed down and pasture short.
Prof. C. f. Curtiss, Iowa Agricul-
tural College: Eternal vigilance is the
only certain method of Graduating
morning glories in corn field that l
know of. An easier and much more
economical plan is to seed the land
down to timothy, clover and blue grass
and pasture with hogs.
T. c. Buchanan, Lawrence County,
Illinois: l know Of no way to per-
manently destroy morning glories in
corn. By frequent use of the Guilt
vator until corn is too long and later
by going through with the hoe you
will prevent many going to seed. But
in any case there will be enough seed
to insure a good crop the next year.
w. ]. Banks, Hardin County, 1lli-
nois: l have fought the little morn
ing glory for many year and 1t still
lives and fourishes. The best that
can be done is to grow such crops as
need moving as often as possible. Or
cultivate fast and often during entire
season. One good thing about it is
that it does but little harm.
Prof. A. D. Selby, Ohio Agricultural
College: The reference doubtless is
to bracted bindweed, a perennial weed
of the worst type. | doubt II they
have ever been destroyed in a field
in cultivation. Some have hogs fol-
low pillow to eat up pests below, and
follow by late hoeing to clean out.
Continual cutting down can destroy
them If long followed.
Prof. H. Garman, Kentucky Expert
ment Station: know of no way OF
getting rid of morning glory except
through cultivation, and special care
in destroying all plants SO as to pre-
vent the production of seeds. Seeds
of such weeds are too frequently
allowed to pass through the hands OF
farmers, mixed with other seeds. They
are rather large, black, and angular,
and can readily be recognized and re-
moved from among most crop seeds.
Prof. c. F. Wheeler, Michigan Ag-
ricultural College: The only way to
exterminate morning glories in corn
field is to keep a sharp toothed culti-
vator going twice a week, and in the
meantime to send boy through the
field to cut or pull the plants that the
cultivator leaves in rows and hills.
This method of proceeding will eradi-
cate the morning glories in the corn
and answers your question. Whether
this is the cheapest method depends
on circumstances.
Prof. W. P. Brooks, Massachusetts
Agricultural College: l do not know
of any easy method whereby morning
glories in a corn field may be extermi-
mated. 1t will be necessary to keep
them down either by cutting or pull
ing so thoroughly as to prevent the
ripening of seed. The plant is an an
nual and if this course be persisted in
for a few years the plant should be
exterminated. Very likely, however,
there is a considerable stock OF seed
buried in the soil at different depths
and some of this, as 1t is brought to
the right distance beneath the surface
by the operations of culture, VIII
doubtless continue to grow for a num-
Der of years. If the field should be put
into grass and the grass cut early
and cut a second or perhaps also
third time so as to prevent seeding
the moving would soon clear itself
of the morning glory but when the
field should be plowed again 1t seems
probable that seeds which had been
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