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FORM 149-P SPECIAL
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Agrucultural Fi.eldmanQs report to Joint Meeting
Council and Agricultural Service Board
October 22, 1971
This report briefly deals with activities for the summer
season
During the months of June and July, my time was spent to a
large degree working from the office making necessary farm calls,
etc. as Mr Dan Peters was away on Education Leave. Our Ecology
student Mr. Tim Kuefler, worked in very well and was able to do
the lar er proportions of the school yard work and grass seeding
in the arly part of the summer.
Alproximately 400 miles of road was sprayed for weed
control on both sides
A proximately 36 miles of roadsides
grass 1 game mixture which make us nearly
3 herds of cattle have been sprayed
control this Fall
D ring the month of August, we were
Beet We worm and the Bertha Army worm in
have been seeded to a
caught up this Fall.
with Coral for warble
extremely busy with the
rapeseed crops
AjS B tour held on August 10th,, but was poorly attended.
Those attending were impressed by the Demonstration plots and
Lacombe Research Plots on the farm of Ralph Brown
Our Weed control program suffered due to pressures of
other work However, Lorne kept the spray rig busy on weed and
brush cgntrol Our Toadflax spraying is down somewhat this year.
I hope to do some soil sterilant work on some of the
pavemen shoulders this Fall with chemical we have on hand to
test Fail application as compared to Spring
G G Park
Ag. Fi.eldman