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Cheat. Bro7nii3 sccalinns L. 



Also known as Chess or Whoat 

 Tliief. ^rciiibcr of the (irass family 

 and elosely related to Brome Grass. 

 A winter annual growing about 

 two feet high. Panicle loose, spike- 

 lets slightly drooping, each spikelet 

 containing eight or ten flowers. Seed 

 % of an inch long, light brown, 

 bearing an awn about half its length. 

 Common throughout the State, and 

 particularly objectionable in wheat 

 and oats. As the plant is hardier 

 than wheat or oats, and the seed is 

 not easily separated from grain in 

 cleaning, it is hard to convince many 

 farmers that their grain does not 

 actually ''turn to Cheat." June to 

 July. 



CONTROL 



Sow clean seed, wheat and oats. 

 As it always comes from the seed, 

 the fields of wheat and oats can be 

 thoroughly cleared of this pest by 

 not allowing any of the "cheat" 

 plants to mature seed, and by not 

 sowing any of the seed with the 

 wheat and oat crops. Of course 

 pulling by hand is quite effective In 

 controlling its spread when it first 

 starts. This is an excellent hay 

 plant and is always welcome in 

 meadows. It becomes a weed only 

 when it gets into the small grain 

 fields, and it may get into these 

 fields through the manure from the 

 animals fed with hav eontaininir it. 



No. 14— Cheat or Hromu8 secamnus L. 



