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(!;r i)(»ssil)ility of <lt'vrl«)|)iii«; .sii«;ar-l)r<'t prtxiuctioii «)n ii urnlv wtiich 

 would jiisiify fact<»rv crrchoii. Tlint is (nic in |)<»rtiniis of Nrw 

 Mfxiro. We liHvc a rrcciit in(|uiiv rrj^ardin^ an area llwrv and it 

 is truo in a nuinhor of sections whon* prain crops havo not pai<l and 

 where a more intensive croj) is attractive to the farmers as u possible 

 stahili/in^ feature of their farmi!);;. 



In the irii^ated regions i^cnrruiiy, where there is not neniatodi' 

 infection or curly-top disease, the interest, I should say. is well sus- 

 tained, with indication of a rather steady enlarj^enient of the heet- 

 growinj; area of th<' country. 



FX>U l.NVK.STKJATION. KTC. OK WII.H I'LANTS, (JRAZIN(J LANDS, KTC. 



On pa<;c 107, tile suhapproprint ion. "For in\ <>sti<;alion, improve- 

 ment, and utilization of wild plants and <;ra/,in;; lands, and for 

 determinin}» the dis|)osition of weeds and means of their control," 

 the estimate provides nn incr(>ase of .•?•'{,(»()() needed for weed-control 

 invest i<;ational work. The weed problem, esp(>cially in the wlieat- 

 urowinj; territory, where the weed content of tne threshed crop is an 

 important feature in determinin<; the jjrade of the *;rain, needs more 

 thorou<;li and persistent work in the investiirntion of the life history 

 of some of the weeds that are troublesome and ciiuses penalizations of 

 the farmer in the fjradinj; of his fjrain. 



(iarlic is one of those. In the whole (piestion of j^ariicky wheat, 

 which results inevitably in the penalization of the (]jrower beyond the 

 economic or financial damaj^e that occurs, there is neetled fuller 

 information than we yet have as to the best methods of controlling 

 <;arlic in the rej^ions where it is established. The same applies for 

 a very ilifferent reason to the spring-wheat territory with respect to 

 the so-called wild pea. It is a vetch -a wild vetch that lowers the 

 grade. It is dilhcult of separation from the grain. 



Mr. BicirANAX. It necessarily reduces the yields 



Doctor Taylor. It reduces the yield somewhat. Also it is diflicult 

 to clean out for milling, as well as from seed grain. 



Mr. .Vndkilsox. As a general thing the presence of these weeds in 

 the wheat, for (example, is it or not the result of seed that is not 

 cleaned or is it a continual volunteering of the seed ( 



Doctor Taylor. It sometimes is the result of continual growing ol 

 that |)articular crop on a given field without the rotation of a cleaning 

 tilled crop, like corn, or more intensive farming, and while we advo- 

 cate more intensive cullivatitm and tilled crops in the interest of good 

 farming generally and in the interest of weed elimination, we can not 

 overlook the fact that under some conditions the farmer just can not 

 carry a large acreage of c(u-n or of any other tilled crop. He is 

 practically forced to grow a large proportion of his acreage in st)wed 

 grains with the labor that 1h' has and the market that he has. So it 

 is imj)ortant to locate the weak spots in the life history of the rela- 

 tively few troublesome weeds if that can be done, to develop methods 

 of controlling them measurably in general grain-growing practice. 

 That seems to be all that the farmer can do under the existing 

 circumstances. 



Mr. AxnKRsox. To what extent can the situation be corrected 

 by growing barley, or rye, or crops that mature earlier^ 



