KOCHIA SCOPARIA 
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90 to 100% ... Car Lots or 
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Late Field Corn. 
Hybrid Seed Corn. 
Also Several Varictios 
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Headquarters 
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EXICAN FIREBALL (Kochia scoparia).—This is an introduced annual 
Hardy weed evidently brought in as a decorative plant, which is not long re- 
Alfalfas moved from its wild or free state. By selection its growth has been de- 
Red Clovers veloped into a dense pyramidal form which becomes intensely crimson col- 
Alsike 
ored upon nearing maturity. When not selected for type each year, it soon 
Sweet Clover reverts to its wild form and becomes a coarse, unsightly weed that is now 
Soy Beans widespread along roads, around farmsteads and in waste places and fields. It 
Hybrid 
Mf produces much seed and will even roll like a tumbleweed. This is another 
Seed Corn : aay : ; ; : 
case of poor judgment in introducing a plant into this country before its habits 
@ are sufficiently known. It grows in dense masses, smothering out all the 

smaller and less vigorous plants. The length of life of its seeds is not definitely 
known. Eradication consists in hand pulling, hoeing and planting infested 


lands to intertilled crops. Maturing plants should be cut and burned. + 

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