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A NUMBER OF COMMON WEEDS, WITH POPULAR 



DESCRIPTIONS AND NOTES ON 



ERADICATION. 



Fig. i. 

 Fox-tat L. Ykli.ow Fox-tail, Bottle Grass, or Pigeon Grass. 



Chameraphis glauca (L). 



A common weed in stubble, fallow or root fields. It has a peren- 

 nial root, with stems about two feet high, of erect habit of growth. 

 At the summit of that part of the leaf which sheaths the stem (the 

 ! igule ) there is a fringe of hairs. The leaves are flat, rough above, 

 lad smooth beneath. The dense, close spike, which resembles millet, 

 .s bristly and tawny yellow in color. 



The seeds are ^ in. long, various shades of brown in color, wnth 

 t mnsverse wrinkles. They frequently retain their green color, and 

 ire quite commonly found as an impurity in clover and grass seed. 

 See Fig. 1, a.) An average plant produces about 15,000 seeds. 



Time of flowering, July-September. 



Time of seeding, August October. 



Eradication. Gangplow stubble ground about three inches deep 

 . arly in the fall ; as soon as the seeds have had time to sprout, culti- 

 \-ate thoroughly ; repeat cultivation and rib the land with a double 

 iiould board plow the last thing before the frost. Put in a hoed crop 

 ' potatoes, roots or corn) next spring and cultivate thoroughly through - 

 ■ lut the growing season. Follow with a grain crop seeded with clover, 

 vithout plowing after the roots, for if the land is plowed it is liable 

 10 bring more seed to the surface. When the sod is broken up, plow 

 hallow in the latter part of harvest, cultivate with harrow and culti- 

 vator throughout the fall, and rib up as above. 



In the early after-harvest cultivation of stubble ground, some 

 narrow the stubble as the first step ; and when the weed seeds have 

 -prouted under their light covering, then gang-plow and harrow, and 

 -tir afterwards with the cultivator as time permits throughout the 

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