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How can we get rid of kale? 



A Farmer. — Pulling it out is the best way I know of. 



Mr. Cook. — Thorough cultivation will do it, but the trouble i» 

 with the seed which will lay dormant in the soil during many 

 years; but when given a chance will grow. The best remedy 

 to prevent it from going to seed is to pull it out. It is an annual 

 and does not make another crop, except from seed. 



How can one prevent live-forever from growing? 



Mr. Cook. — I don't know, except cultivation and rotation is fol- 

 lowed. In Delaware county it was reported two or three years 

 since that a parasite had appeared there which had attacked the- 

 live-forever and was killing it. I don't know anything about 

 the truth of the statement. 



How are we to get riil of plantain both on new and old seeding? 



Mr. Litchard. — If the land is kept seeded all the time, I do not 

 know what you would do with it. 



Mr. Converse. — I see no other way except to give a rotation of 

 crops. A three years' rotation and good cultivation will drive it 

 out. I would not mow a meadow more than once. Plantain,, 

 wild carrot, rag weed and others may thus be eradicated by a. 

 rotation of crops and good cultivation. 



Mr. Cook. — That is good advice; but there is a whole lot of land 

 we cannot cultivate. On such land we can do little else but 

 pasture. 



How can we get rid of burdocks in our village streets? 



Mr. Cook. — Call the trustees together and lay the matter before- 

 them. It ought to be their affair. 



W. S. Moore. — Keep picking off the leaves and feed them to- 

 horses. They are very valuable for that purpose and are greatly 

 relished by the horse. 



Will the feeding off the green wheat in the fall produce chess as is- 

 claimed by some people? 



A Farmer. — I think it will. I once knew a field of several acres- 

 of winter wheat which was fed down by a lot of calves at harvest- 

 time, one-half of the field was ches.«. 



