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Inprana Wreps—T HEIR Con'rrot AND HRaApicaTION. 
By G. M. Frirr, B. S. A., Assistant Agricultural Extension, 
Purdue University. 
The subject of weeds is one in which the people of Indiana are taking 
more and more interest each year. The farmers, who constitute a large 
percentage of the population of the State, are much concerned about the 
Weed situation now confronting them. There are growing on the farms 
Bracted Plantain. 
Buckhorn. 
Black-seeded Plantain. 
Common or Dooryard Plantain. 
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of Indiana today, scores of species of weed pests, and in many cases enor- 
mous numbers of each species. This results in smaller crops and smaller 
profits. Weeds are robbers in a very distinct and definite sense. To the 
citizens of our town and cities they are unsightly and offensive, disfiguring 
