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south on 729 just out of Flint Hill.) Results of corn tests run at Orange in 1967 have come. Drop by and look over the first report to see the yields, percent that stood up until harvest time, and other ways the different kinds of corn grew. For every pound of weeds growing in your pastures, there will be a pound less grass and clover for your cows. Ram Sale Dates are: Performance Tested Ram Sale at Staunton on June 21; Harrisonburg Ram and Ewe Sale - July 11; and Staunton Ram Sale - July 30. There will be no sales this year at Orange or Winchester.
Cost of weeds in pastures this year will run around $250,000 in Rappahannock County. Loss in pasture yields is estimated at $4.00 per acre; feed value (quality) is reduced another $3.50; mowing costs run around $2.50 per acre. Also, some figure there is an estimated loss of $2.00 per acre in the value of land because of weeds. If you have one musk thistle,, or but one curled thistle plant, on your farm, you have a tough problem unless you get to work and get rid of it. One plant will make 80 to 40,000 seeds in one yea r. Blow the whistle on these thistles before the cost of ridding your land of them grows too big for your pocketbooks.
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