Morris tribune., 1922-07-14
WEEDS ARE ATTACKED
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
Stevens Township Leads County
Units in Clearing Roadsides of
Undesirable Weeds

Township boards, farmers and the
county weed inspectors are uniting
this month in a concentrated attack
on the weeds in Stevens county for
the purpose of their ultimate con-
troll and eradication in some in
stances. During the past two weeks
much has been done by cutting the
weeds along the roadsides with Stew
ems township reporting that the
weeds along every roadside in the
township have been cut. Other
townships have the project we'll un-
der way and it is expected that the
next week will see all of the town
ships having this work completed.
According to J. P. Hanrahan, weed
inspector for north half of Stevens
county, all of the weeds along the
roadsides should be cut very soon to
eliminate their production of seeds
and in cases where they are we'll ad-
vanced toward this stage the weeds
should be burned following their cut
ting.
ness of the farmers to cooperate in
the control of various weeds and as
sist in every way possible with the
work of the weed inspector is re-
ported by Mr.. Hanrahan.
In the north half of the county one
field containing "a acres on one farm
was recently cut to eliminate
Canadian thistle while on another
farm 10 acres have been plowed un
der to destroy a patch of perennial
SOW thistle. On another farm nine
acres have been moved to keep a
patch of SOW thistle from seeding.
According to the local weed in
spector, a large percentage of the
farms in the northern half of the
county have some Canadian or SOW
thistle. Seventy-f1ve per cent of the
work of getting these weeds under
control is completed by keeping them
from going to seed, according to the
inspector.
That the farmers of the northwest
are losing a great deal of money by
paying freight for the shipping of
weed seed in grain is contained in
a statement recently made by C. P.
Bull, state weed inspector, in which
he said that farmers of the Dakotas,
Minnesota and Montana paid $500
900 freight on dockage in spring
wheat alone in 1921.
Miss Mildred Brom is visiting
L. 81 &c
A. N. Romstad left Wednesday
night on a short business trip to the
Twin Cities.
M. NJ Reeve made a business trip
to the Twin Cities Sunday returning
to Morris on Tuesday.
Mrs. L. G. Mustain expects to
leave next week for a three-week
trip to the Pacific coast where she
will visit at home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Leighton of Seattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harvey and
family, former residents of Morris,
were visitors in this city Monday.
They now make their home at Quinn
bey, Ia.
Mrs H. S. MacLagan left for Min
neapolis Monday noon for a two
weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs.
R. E. Roberts and son, Leroy
Matteson.
Mrs. L. LaFave left Sunday for
Minneapolis where she will visit
with friends and then continue on to
Chicago, ILL.,, for visit with her
daughter, Mrs l. M. Webster of that
city.
Mrs. Frank Carney attended the in
itiation of candidates for the Degree
of Honor in Graceville Saturday ev-
ening of last week. She also Wis
tied at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Bruers.
Miss Olga Brom returned home
from an extended trip in the east
| last Saturday night. She visited in
New York City and other points in
the East and also made trip to Nj
agara Falls. During the past school
year Miss Brom taught in the Jun
ior high school at Sault Saint Marie,
Mich.
The Misses Mildred and Florence
Ortman left last Thursday for a
months trip in the west. They
went out on the Canadian Pacific
and will return on the Northern Pa
cif1c railway. While in the west
they will visit with their brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Ortman of North Yakima, Wash.
Willmar Elks plan big entertain
ment program for their picnic and
barbecue which will be held at the
Kandiyohi County Fair grounds on
Wednesday, July 10. Horse races,
! foot races and other forms Of amuse-
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