Wild Oats In Grainfields

In response to the query what to do to get rid of wild oats which are a pest in mauy grain districts Denver Field and Farm says: The best way is to grow crops among wbich the wild oats will not ripen. An early variety of barley or winter rye will ripen so early that it may be harvested before the wild oats are mature enough to shatter out, and this often proves a rneans of preventing theni froru seeding for the year. Milist and sonie other anuual forage crops which can be mown before the wild oats are matured are also usefal in preventing this weed frorn ripening its seeds. The land should be fall plowed early that uone of the wild oat plants cut off prior may be allowed to seud iip flowering culms by stooliug out at the base of the plant. Cultivated crops like corn, potatoes, etc, serve a most excellent purpose if the cviltivation be so tuorough that no wild oats are allowed to ripeu.