Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — Chorlock In Spring Grain. [ARTICLE]

Chorlock In Spring Grain.

If there appear yellow flowers scattered here and there through fields of oats or barley, when these cereals have grown a few Inches high, it is a sign that the field needs attention and weeding. This yellow flower belongs to the mustard family, and is air intolerable pest in spring grain. It only grows on ground disturbed in spring. Each plant bears hundreds to thousands of seeds, and as these will lie in the ground for years, and only grow when the ground is spring plowed, they soon make the growing of spring grain Impossible. Wherever this pest abounds seeding should be done with winter wheat or rye, and no spring cultivation of these grains can be allowed, as this will start the weed to growing, Just as it would in spring grain.