tor provided with wide points that overlap so as to cut off every plant two 

 or three inches below the surface. Then harrow, to pull up the plants 

 and leave them to die. In the middle of June, there will be another crop, 

 and possibly a greater number of plants, but not so vigorous as the first 

 crop. Repeat the operations with the wide-point cultivator and the har- 

 row. In July, a few delicate plants will make their appearance and will 

 have to be destroyed in the same way. This will be sufficient for most 

 weeds ; but bindweed may need one or two extra cuttings with the wide- 

 points and a corresponding number of harrowings. 



The preceding method will clean the land, but it involves the loss of 

 a year's crop ; so it is well to add, that land may be kept comparatively 

 free from weeds without the loss of a crop, by after-harvest cultivation 

 of all fields not in grass, begun with each field just as soon as the crop is 

 off and continued throughout the fall, first by shallow gang-plowing and 

 harrowing and afterwards at intervals, as above, by the wide-point culti- 

 vator and the harrow. This treatment followed by a hoed crop properly 

 attended to will destroy most perennial weeds and all annual and biennial 

 seeds that are near the surface. 



Note. To Mr. Rennie's method or methods, as above given, I would 

 venture to add one which we have seen carried out with the most satis- 

 factory results by Mr. Rennie on the College farm, and with marked 

 success by farmers in other parts of the Province. It may be put in the 

 imperative form, as follows : Sow much with red clover, in order to 

 have a rich clover sod to plow down for all or nearly all spring crops, 

 taking as far as possible only one crop of hay or pasture before plowing, 

 occasionally two, but not more than two. Plow the clover sod shallow, not 

 more than four inches, early after harvest, say the 1st to the 15th of 

 August, and harrow at once. Let it stand a couple of weeks ; then culti- 

 vate, the same way as it was plowed, two or three inches deep, with a 

 spring-tooth cultivator. After a while, cross cultivate a little deeper. If 

 possible, cultivate a third, or even a fourth time, going a little deeper 

 each time. Then, if you can manage to do so, rib it up with a double 

 mouldboard plow, as you would for a crop of turnips. When this is done 

 the available plant food (clover roots, etc.) is preserved in the center of 

 the drills, the water runs off early in the spring, and the drills can be 

 levelled with the cultivator and harrow, either for spring grain or for 

 hoed crops. 



This method will not only clean land but will greatly enrich it. 



INFORMATION FROM FARMERS AS TO NEW WEEDS ETC., IN DIFFERENT 



PARTS OF THE PROVINCE. 



At the request of the writer, the Bureau of Industries for the Prov- 

 ince, in 1898, kindly sent out a few questions about weeds to its regular 

 correspondents, and others, chiefly those who had done satisfactory ex- 



