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si.TlaoslOQon,SS9.! Mors Evidence.F. W. Hambleton, writing to the0 a | Gazette from West ClifFe, Colora-are '■ do, some additional informa* flat, | tion io regard to the Johnson | grass pest. He ssya : tbe | “In the Gazette Of March 7 I saw •e,j(ian article from Bowie signed by | R. W. Weaver, in which no puta forth strong claims in favor of or | that pest of Texas called Johnson ian | grass, for it is the one and the _4]j | same. Mr. Weaver claims that it md i will not spread, and in proof of it I he stated he never saw a spear of it is 1 two feet from where he pat it. I'd or. like to know how long he rein. amined in the neighborhood after [je putting it there. If he remained itv : two years, or three, in that viein-!l(] ity and did not see it spread over for , two or three acres from where he idS , put tt. lie certainly saw what no 1)0 one else saw who has had any be ! knowledge of Johnson grass. Mr.I Weaver stated what he knew was be a falsehood when he made such a en | statement. I can show him s duo 0f; farm in Brown county, which is en-!Cj_ tirely ruined by Johnson grass, so0f | that the owner has given it up andb0 ; left it. I can show him another be I farm in Dallas county, live milesils ’ from the city of Dallas which is a! U3 ; most in as bad a hx and which will i soon be worthless. He makes1 t i ,7,n ’ another fine statement in avii.0 r. j that in his judgment if one-third j[ \ of the farms in Texas were takeniup with Johnson grass it would ,e he well taken. They certainly j i woald be so well taken, in fact, that .t I their owners would have to leaver* i r them forever.
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Abilene Taylor County News
Abilene, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 29, 1889
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