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The two patches on the R. R. Brown farm, one in the pasture and the 

 other in the meadow, were hoed and dug up and are smaller than two jears 

 ae:o. 



There are two patches on the A. Gilchrist farm, one of which was found last 

 year. Mr. Gilchrist kept them down by plowing the ground and digging 

 them up, and this fall there are but few to be found. 



Mr. Granart found a few in his hog pasture. He dug them up and is doing 

 what he can to exterminate them. 



There are two patches on the H. Kirkpatriek farm. They were dug up 

 and I think there are less this fall than there has been for a number of years. 



Two patches were found in a pasture of the old Geo. Hill farm ("owned by 

 J. D. Roberts). One was plowed a number of times and the other they 

 salted the cattle on. The thistles are diminishing. 



There are four patches on the old R. M. Pritchard farm (one of which we 

 found this year), two in the pasture, one in the cornfield, and potatoes were 

 plarited on the other. The two where corn and potatoes were planted were 

 cultivated and the thistles were pulled up. Of the two patches in the pas- 

 ture, one was plowed a number of times and the thistles on the other were 

 dag up. 



But few thistles were found on the Ed. Grady farm and they were dug up. 



I did not know of the patch on Mrs. W. R. Sow's farm until September. 

 They were small then and were watched so did not go to seed. 



The patch on the O'Connor farm was in a cornfield. It was partly looked 

 after but not as well as it should have been. 



Mr. W. F. Spencer planted corn on his thistle patches and tried to extermi- 

 nate them by hoeing after cultivating. 



The patch on the James Boylen farm is a large one, and, while it was 

 plowed, it might have been looked after better. I think Frank Greeley is 

 more thorough with his thistles than any one in this town. He goes to the 

 thistle patch once each week and hoes and digs up all to be found. He con- 

 tinues this from the time they start in the spring until it is too late for them 

 to grow in the fall. He claims he exterminated a patch last year and hopes 

 to clear their farm of them this year. 



But few thistles were found on the Charlie Boerkenhour farm and they 

 were dug up. 



Charlie Reisman has two patches which contain more thistles than any 

 other two patches in town. They had been neglected for two years, but after 

 your thistle commissioner called on him in the spring he went to work and 

 plowed the thistles up, and after that did what he could to exterminate them. 



Wm. Leifheit had a patch in his meadow and in June went to work and 

 plowed them up and this fall I could find but few thistles there. 



During the two years that this town was without a thistle commissioner 

 quite a good many patches were allowed to go without being looked after, 

 but I am gratified to see how well the farmers have taken hold and have tried 

 to exterminate them during the past year. I know of no better way t« treat 

 thistles than the way I have said Frank Greeley was doing, and I would re- 

 commend that all farmers who have thistles to contend with adopt the same 

 plan. 



DuPAGE COUNTY. 



Report of John Edwards, Canada thistle commissioner of Naperville 

 township. 



The commissioner of Canada thistles for the town of Naperville, DuPage 

 county, Illinois, would report that said thistles are now growing in said town 

 on the farms of Elias B. Ketehum, Matt Fiddles, Stephen Thatcher, Francis 

 Granger, Albert Ehrhart, F. Berger. Jerry Fraley, Frank Winckler, A. H. 

 Strubler, George Winckler, Milton Crampton, Peter Tasson, M. Stredte, 



