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Your commissioner has spent in this work the total number thirty- five (35) 

 days, as follows: 



June, 11 days $22 on 



July. 12 days 24 00 



Aug., 12 days 24 00 



Total, 35 days $70 00 



Total number of days, 35, $2 per day $70 00 



For printinji: 2 00 



Total amount due commissioner $72 00 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Your commissioner finds that most of the parties on whose land Canada 

 thistles grew tried to prevent them from goinc to seed, and looked after 

 them very well. 



PUTNAM COUNTY. 



Report of J. 0. Wienship, Canada thistle commissioQer, Senachwine town- 

 ship. 



Of the five patches of Canada thistles in this township three are extermi- 

 nated. One was smothered by stacking straw on it and two were continually 

 dug out to a good depth and kerosene and salt put on the remaining portion 

 of toproot where too deep to dig out. The other two patches have been con- 

 tinually cut below the surface but some plants continue to sprout up from 

 the deeper roots. They have been well confined to the original patches and 

 none have gone to seed. I am in hopes this next season will see the last 

 plant exterminated. 



TAZEWELL COUNTY. 



Report of A. J. Brennemann, commissioner of Canada thistles, Boynton 

 township: 



The commissioner of Canada thistles for the town of Boynton, Tazewell 

 county, Illinois, would report that said thistles are now found growing dur- 

 ing the season of 1901 in said town on the farm of John Kennedy, two and 

 one-fourth miles southeast of Boynton Center. I have consulted and advised 

 with John Kennedy. By hoeiug the thistles every week or two during the 

 growing season of 1001 by the the owner of the land. Johu Kennedy, aud 

 that I believe said thistles should be treated for another year in the same 

 way by which time they will probebly be entirely eradicated. -^.jK'.'.ri^di 



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WILL COUNTY. "-=31 



Report of Alex. W. Arrasmith, commissioner of Canada thistles, Joliet 

 township: 



The commissioner of Canada thistles for the town of Joliet, Will county, 

 Illinois, would report that Canada thistles are growing in the town, on nearly 

 all farms in said town and also on city lots in large and small patches to the 

 number of over GOO, varying in size from a few feet square to one acre. As 

 this is my first year my experience with Canada thistles is not very extensive 

 and thp tew experiments that I have tried cannot be relied on until another 

 year. I have tried coal oil, gasoline, salt and carbolic acid, and while they 

 have apparently done the wurk in some cases, still they have not been satis- 

 factory. ("Cutting them the last part of June and again the last of August, 

 just before blossoming, will keep them from seeding and in some cases seems 

 to have killed them. But I would recommend that thorough cultivation is 

 the only sure way to exterminate them and would recommend the following: 

 Plow the ground deep the first of July, sow a thick crop of millet, cut the 



