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tjl ^ BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho organic food grower has
Dine up with a method less expensive and less environ
jentally harmful than the use of chemicals to rid crops
of weeds and has turned it into a profitable business.
;r j Idaho Seed Co. of Burley has been using weed-eating
, re ^Hgeese for about one year.
■President Bill Rolley said the company was searching
s deploye f° r an alternative method to destroy weeds after chemic-
dc virtually ; |l weec l killers were ruled out because of their potential
with the y fo rcontamination > an d hand picking of weeds was found
'en the k'tobe too expensive.
ly, Vietnam 1^‘' We ’ ve been growing organically for years,” Rolley
f and laniB^' we d come up with only two methods of
d more for *P® e( k n 8~~ by hand and with chemicals. We don’t use
lemicals because we feel they are detrimental to the
ip and the soil and hand picking is extremely expen-
han for figW
entional SoJ The company now has 80,000 Chinese Weeder geese
garded as typhd 1 it uses to weed its own fields and also leases to
vastly outnjfea farmers.
s in the rf He said the geese were originally produced in China
confidental(>bout 2,000 years ago. Since that time, cross-breeding
capability, bas increased the size of the white bird to about that of a
swan, Rolley said.
le V; j “■The geese can be used to weed many crops although
e( j r' c , u * ‘ they also may nibble on leafy plants such as spinach and
wal tacmties) ttuce Rolley said the geese cannot be "used to weed
ain crops but can be used in com after the plant
l , ._iaches a certain height.
s and with® jj e sa j(] the cost of using geese to get rid of weeds
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initially is about the same as using chemicals. But geese
get cheaper to use, he said.
Aside from the obvious elimination of chemical con
taminants, geese help enrich the soil because their
manure is a good ferzilizer, Rolley said. He said the
geese also do not compact the soil as a tractor pulling a
chemical sprayer would and do not require petroleum
products to operate.
The use of weeder geese also helps avoid the creation
of “super weeds,” Rolley said, weeds which develop
immunities to a chemical after it has been used for a
time.
The geese also can be a source of income through sale
of the young and meat. Rolley said each fall the company
butchers many of the ganders and sells them to super
markets for roasting.
The weeder geese have caught on in the Burley area.
Rolley said about 20 farmers used the geese to weed
about 10,000 acres this year. The company also used the
geese on its 1,000 acres of carrots, potatoes, onions,
lentils and peas.
And Rolley said the company has been contacted by
persons from every state and England interested in
obtaining some of the geese.
The firm hopes to begin advertising baby goslings for
sale soon in magazines. Rolley said the goslings will
begin hatching in April and will range in price from 50
for $7 each to 10,000 or more for $3.25 each.
The National Parks Service is interested in discover
ing if weeder geese could rid weeds from wilderness
areas where the use of chemicals is banned.
Masterson
letter thief
charged
United Press International
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Col
orado man has been charged with the
July theft of letters by notorious gun-
fighter Bat Masterson from the Con
necticut State Library, the FBI re
ports.
Stephen D. Englert, 41, of Love
land, Colo., a collector of Colt
firearms, was charged Thursday at
his home with receiving and attemp
ting to sell the letters.
L. Gray Brockman, FBI special
agent in charge in Connecticut, said
the letters, written by Masterson to
the Colt Firearms Co. of Hartford
during the 1880s, were recovered.
He said the letters, now valued at
$40,000, concerned the purchase of
firearms by the Western gunslinger.
Englert was to scheduled to go be
fore a federal magistrate in Denver.
He faces a $10,000 fine and a 10-year
prison term if convicted.
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Cheerleader now
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Robin Sindorf, a clown and a daredevil,
.e costs ofkee-
gh enough hi
ake the Sow dances into the rodeo ring and delights the crowd by teasing a hulking,
iclude it is; snorting bull that weighs nearly as much as a Volkswagen, and daring
withdraw, ”ii him to gore her.
As one of the first female barrel clowns in the business, Robin is a
rodeo performer, but not much of a horseback rider, she admits.
“There’s a lot of guys who won’t get in that barrel,” said Robin, 21, a
Texan who put down her pom-poms after a stint as a Dallas Cowboys
/i cheerleader, left the world of beauty pageants where she won some
MA im I t '^ es ’ anc ^ toc> k on t ^ e rou 8h and tumble life of the rodeo.
0 She prefers disco dress to cowgirl garb, and brings a touch of it to the
“ clown role she plays on the western rodeo circuit.
Robin is a clown with a contemporary, feminine touch. She curls her
long dark hair before each performance, and appears in the ring
/wearing loose-fitting cutoff blue jeans over a leotard and tights or a
I shiny satin shirt. Her face makeup is a simple white starshaped design,
| which never varies.
When the bull enters the ring, Robin earns her pay.
, I Distracting the bull from goring the rider he has just bucked off,
* 1 Robin faces the same risk as a matador.
l i ■ | She waves a white bra at the bull, which gets a laugh from the crowd.
„ „| Then, perched atop her barrel, she swipes at the thundering mass of
beet with a broom.
“When the bull dumps his rider and comes for me, I jump in the
barrel,’’ said Robin. “It’s really frightening to peer out and see him
what compit standing there. ”
Occasionally, crouched in her special fiberglass cocoon, Robin is
propelled around the ring on the end of the bull’s horns, or pitched as
high as 15 feet into the air.
If she fell out, the bull probably would stomp and gore her, she said.
So she clings to the straps inside the barrel and braces herself against
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National Bail Searchers scoured a 25-square-
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Since July, 1979, 14 black children
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Volunteers last weekend found
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Mayor Maynard Jackson said, “I’m
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determination of the people of
Atlanta.”
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