The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-04-10
WEEDS MEAN WASTE.

si ! have been reading G lecture or
weeds, prepared by Grace Marian
Smith for the International Harvest l
" Co., and found much to interest me.
~ Weeds mean waste--a fearful waste
which H. r. Cox, of the L. S. depart
ment Of agriculture, estimates at
\ $500, 100000 for the whole United
States. This is direct, actual money
loss, such as the reduced income due
to the short crop, and does not i'll
clude such indirect losses as depre'
ciated activities.
Lack OF careful planning with ref,
erence to weeds may be seen in al
most any community. Here, a man
planted more corn than he could care
for property; there, a man has left a
field in meadow too many years. Here.
a man did not thoroughly prepare his
land for alfalfa; there, another has
seeded clover that W2s full OF weed
seed"
A field which grows weeds cannot
at the same time produce d maximum
crop of grain.
f The weed is on the job all the time,
it has no vacations or fUrloughs.
l quote the following: Sometimes
you have seen a burdock growing be-
side the road, just getting ready to
seed, and you have wished that some
enc would cut it down. Why not you?
"YOu 1row the weeds once, then
you pat yourself On the back for q
thrifty farmer, tell what good citi-
zen you are. go into the wheat field.
and don't spend any more time CT
thought on weeds until next year.
Gin the meantime. the weeds keen
on growing. They grow nights and
Sundays.
"The wheat is ready 70 cut, and you
forget the weeds. 1t stays on the job.
1T rains and YOU get under cover.
1t stays on the job
might comes and you rest. The,
weed stays Oh the job.
"You may go out for JOY ride, but
the weeds on the job.
n "The special business of the weed
is to secure Eourishmcnt for itself to
perpetuate its species. and it stays
right on the job all the time
The way to get the best of the weed
pest is to rotate the crops, fan and
screen seed, cultivate Frequently and
thoroughly, prevent seeding, use
smother crop, pasture with sheep. CHI
rich the ground. dig out, develop COM
munity sentiment antagonistic to the
weed and keep on the job.
&f5@ O.
Ida Grove Record-Era: S. e. Cron
uuist, enc Of the Hayes township pio-
neers, was a passenger from here on
Wednesday morning for Sioux City.
Mr.. Cronquist located in section 3S,
4ls in the early part Of the sos and
has resided on the one farm ever
since. In talking about the value OF
Ida county land, Mr.. Cronquist said
he could recall visit he made to
Odebolt some thirty years ago, and
while eating q meal in the old Ballard
& restaurant in company with G. e.
Coy, one of the pioneers OF Sac, and
seyera lothers in eastern Ida and
Sac, he remembered Mr.. Coy making
the remark that Ida and Sac county
land would sell for 500 per acre dur
ing his lifetime, and that prophecy
certainly came true. While on his
way to Chicago a short time ago Mr..
Cronquist entered into conversation
with a we'll known capitalist near Vail
who said that he made Mr.. Adams,
owner OF the Adams ranch near Ode
bolt, an offer of $500 per acre for nine
sections Of his land, but had been
turned down.
THE use Of wood fuel as q war sub
stitute for coal offers a splendid op-
portunity fer owners Of woodlands TO
improve them by cutting out the dead,
diving or detective trees.