The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-06-13
Latah County Weed District
County Commissioners Wage War Noxious Weeds all
Over the County Weeds Must go.
June 4th, 1919.


Comes now the Board of County
Commissioners of Latah County.
State of Idaho. and makes the fol-
lowing order:
1t is hereby ordered by the Board
OF County Commissioners that La
tab County, State of Idaho, is, and
is hereby declared to be weed dis
trict in compliance with section
1929. to, and including 1922. of
the Revised Codes of Idaho, as "a
mended by Chapter 112 of the 1919
Session Laws.
1t is further ordered that the fol-
lowing named weeds, to-wit: "Jim
Hill" Mustard, and wild mustard,
Canadian thistle. Burdock, Wild
Morning Glory (or Bind Weed) and
Fen (or French) weed are detri-
mental and destructive to agricul-
tural crops in Latah County, and
all such noxious weeds growing
within Latah County, Idaho. are
hereby ordered destroyed or exter-
minated as hereinafter described,
and all of said work must be COM
pleted not later than July l, 1919.
Notice is hereby served on all
owners and occupants of land in
Latah County, Idaho, that SAID
noxious weeds must be exterminat-
ed upon their premises, which ex-
tends to the center of the public
highway joining the premises of
each land owner.
BURDOCK eradication is to be
conducted as follows:
Burdock in small patches should
be eradicated by systematic and con-
tinued hoelng. In fields it should
be controlled by thoro and frequent
cultivation with tool that will
cut off the roots of the plants.
Jim HILL" MUSTARD eradica-
ton:
"Jim Hip Mustard that is just
coming up in late sowed spring
grain should be destroyed by har-
rowing when the grain is up a few
inches. Any msustard that is past
this stage should be hand pulled
when the plant is coming into
bloom. Plants that have passed
the blooming stage should be pull
led and burned.
WILD MORNING GLORY Grad
icatlon:
fla patch of this weed appears
for the first time, ploW up the patch
at once before it has time to mature
seed, then thoroly harrow 1T with
a sprlng-tooth harrow if one is a.
vailable. The spring-tooth harrow
is preferable because it can be set
so as to dig down and bring to the
surface the deep network of roots.
The root-stocks thus brought to the
sruface should be raked off and
destroyed, for each severed root
that becomes covered with little
soil will give rise to a new plant.
Since this weed also propagates
itself by seeds as well as by creep
ing root-stocks, it is doubly import
ant that not single weed be left
in the field. Unless a close watch
is kept over the affected spots it is
impossible to eradicate this weed
the first year of it's appearance.
If you have had this weed on your
land for some years, drop grains
out of the rotation and put in crops
demanding extensive cultivation,
preferably a hoed crop. Continue
the growing of cultivated crops
from year to year until the field is
entirely cleaned. Prepare infested
ground for cultivated crop by early
fall blowing. Cultivate frequently
and rake up and destroy all the
rootstocks brought to the surface
Continue the cultivation as late as
the weather will permit. In the
spring cultivate until tits time to
plant the cultivated crop.
CANADIAN THISTLE eradica-
tion:
In case of small patches one of the
following three methods may be
used, but must be thoroly and per-
sistently carried out:
| % Keep the thistle thoroly cut
with hoe, every few days through.
out the growing season. 1t may
take two seasons to complete the
work, but if properly done there
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