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ness like dust, then a mixture of red clover, alsike timothy and red 

 top is sown bioadcast Avitli a wheelbarrow seeder or any of the 

 devices for the purpose and brushed in with the weeder, going over 

 the field but once and only in one direction. The field is left in 

 this condition till the next June when the mower cuts the crop 

 for hay. After the first crop a second is cut, then a third, and very 

 often a fourth, finishing making hay in October. Immediately fresh, 

 wet, heavy stable manure mixed with short litter is spread daily 

 over the sod till the piece of land is completely covered and left 

 till the following June, when the growing timothy is without a 

 weed, little or big standing, as thick as it can grow. 



Having followed this plan of lessening if not entirely exterminat- 

 ing weeds by growing crops with the object in view of eradicating 

 them by obtaining the largest crops and profits with no loss to the 

 pocketbook. The method is extremely simple, raise as many and as 

 heavy crops as possible to choke out the weeds, smother them, kick 

 them out with the weeder, turn them under with the plow, cover 

 them over with the cultivator, never let them go to seed, have no 

 harboring places for them to propagate, never haul their seed in 

 the manure to the field, and at the same time sow the best seed, 

 remembering also the injunction "that he that soweth sparingly 

 shall reap also sparingly." The whole subject of growing crops 

 without weeds resolves itself into one conclusion, that of intensive 

 farming must be caried out to the letter. No nostrums about it, onlj 

 thoroughness in every department of crop growing. 



