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I have to spend more time than I can afford with the iielp I can get in fighting 

 the weed. The Paint Brush seed is carried by the wind from infested pastures to 

 cultiviited fields, so that one has to be constantly on the watch for its appearance. 

 It does undoubtedly increase the burden we farmers have to bear. With regard to 

 the cultivation necessary to kill the Paint Brush I believe it will require at least 

 two or three cultivations in late sunmier and fall. If a good crop is brought on the 

 following year so much the better. My experience points to the fact that it is 

 easier than quack grass to kill, but still it must get more than a single plowing if 

 we desire to control it." 



Mr. George Blair, one of the best farmers of the district, said : "I have very 

 little Paint Brush on my farm. I attribute this freedom from the weed to the fact 

 that I am very careful to exterminate it as soon as I find it in any of my fields. I 

 believe that a good farmer will have no difficulty in keeping his cultivated fields 

 free from this weed. I am much more afraid of Sow thistle and quack grass. No, 

 I see no way of controlling Paint Brush in my pastures. I do not know what is 

 going to become of them in time." 



Messrs. Clark Goldie, Fred. Fulton and Ben. Johnston, other excellent farmers 

 of the same district, had practically the same opinions regarding the prevalence 

 and control of Paint Brush as Messrs. Moe and Blair. 



There is much Paint Brush on the high broken land between Frankhn and 

 Covey Hill. This land will, moreover, form a source of infestation for the sur- 

 rounding country. No remedy seems to be at hand but the development of the 

 sheep industry on this extensive tract of rough land. 



Mr. George B. Edwards, of Covey Hill, an extensive fruit grower and for many 

 years a Director of the Pomological Society of Quebec, received the Journal rep- 

 resentative with his accustomed warm-heartedness, and discussed the Paint Brush 

 problem with him. " We have so much rough land that can't be cultivated it is 

 impossible to keep Paint Brush under control. Sheep will keep it down to some 

 extent, but my sheep have been worried by dogs so much that I am half inclined 

 to give up sheep entirely. I hope the Legislature ^vill soon pass an act that will 

 allow municipalities to regulate the keeping of dogs and to compensate the owner 

 of sheep for any losses incurred from dogs. There is no use at the present time in 

 any person attempting to keep sheep, there is no way of getting at the dogs or 

 the dog owners." 



"I have no trouble in killing Paint Brush," Mr. Edwards continued, "in land 

 that can be tilled. Quack grass is worse than it. Just south of us here in New 

 York state the farms are terribly infested with Paint Brush. I sometimes think 

 that if we could get quack grass to grow in our pastures it would soon oust the 



