WEED AND SEED LAWS 807 



threshed or unthreshed, shall upon completing any threshing en- 

 gagement and before leaving the premises on which said work was 

 done take all reasonable care to prevent the conveying and carry- 

 ing away and scattering of noxious weeds which may have ac- 

 cumulated in or on the machines. The law provides how this shall 

 be done by operating the machine and sweeping. A printed copy 

 of the law shall be kept posted on every machine operating in the 

 state. A fine, or imprisonment, or both, is provided for violation 

 of the law. I am told the law is not enforced. 



OHIO. 



The state of Ohio has several laws relative to the destruction of 

 weeds, briers and brush. "With reference to the destruction of 

 these on toll, steam, and electric roads the law provides for the 

 destruction of brush, briers, burs, Russian, Canada, or common 

 thistle, wild lettuce, wild mustard, wild parsnip, ragweed, milk- 

 weed, ironweed, and all other noxious weeds growing within the 

 limits of any right of way whether in actual operation or not. If 

 said weeds are not destroyed between the first and twentieth of 

 June and between the first and twentieth of August and if neces- 

 sary between the first and twentieth of September of each year, 

 the trustees of the township through which such road passes shall 

 cause it to be done and shall have right of action against such 

 toll, steam, or electric road and one hundred per cent penalty; 

 costs of action to be recovered before any justice of the peace of 

 such county. The weed law as applied to the destruction of weeds 

 on graveled or improved roads, turnpikes, county township roads, 

 streets, etc., is essentially the same, putting the enforcement in the 

 hands of pike superintendents and turnpike directors. The amount 

 of money which can be collected is fixed at one dollar and a half 

 per day to destroy these weeds. A street commissioner shall be 

 paid for such services by the proper municipal authorities. The 

 land owner or tenant is allowed to cut the noxious weeds along 

 the highway abutting the property. The superintendent shall fix 

 a reasonable compensation for the work. 



Another section provides that upon written information that 

 Canada thistle, Russian thistle, wild lettuce or wild mustard is 

 growing on land in a township and is about to spread or mature 

 seeds between the first day of June and the fifteenth day of Oc- 

 tober, the trustees of the township shall serve written notice upon 

 the owner, lessee, agent or tenant that such weeds occur and that 



