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Durham. Ragweed, Oxeye Daisy, and Perennial Sow Thistle, the weeds most likely to 

 prove troublesome in this county. 



Victoria. Oxeye Daisy, Fahe Flax, and Perennial Sow Thistle among the newer weeds. 



Northumberland. Ragweed spreading rapidl}'. Wild Mustard plentiful alone: the line of 

 the Grand Trunk Railway. Dodder in Percy township, Wild Flax in Percy and Hamilton, 

 Plantain and Sow Thistle abundant in Seymour and Percy. 



Peterborough. Perennial Sow Thistle, White Cockle, Dodder, and Bladder Campion among 

 the newer weeds reported from the southern townships of the county. 



Haliburton. Oxeye Daisy spreading fast. 



Prince Edward. Blue Weed in Ameliasburg township, and said to bespreading southwards. 

 Chicory bad in portions of Hallowell. Bladder Campion and Perennial Sow Thistle in Hillier. 



Hastings. Blue Weed spreading fast and specially troublesome in south part of the county. 

 White Cockle, Dodder, and Wormseed Mustard reported from Thurlow, Tyendinaga, and Sydney 

 townships. No report from northern townshiof. 



Lennox and Addington. Ragweed establishing itself, especially in Camden township. Blue 

 Weed reported from Denbigh township, and Purple Cockle from Amherst Island. 



Frontenac. Dodder in Storrington township, and Blue Weed spreading, especially in the west. 



Renfrew. Perrennial Sow Thistle fast gaining ground in the county. Blue Weed spreading. 

 White Cockle bad in Bromley township, having been introduced in grass seed from western Ontario. 



Lanark. Blue Weed very bad in Montague, Drummond and Bathurst townships. Peren- 

 nial Sow Thistle abundant and spreading fast in Montague township. 



Grrenville. Perennial Sow Thistle reported as spreading in all the townships. Ragweed in 

 Edwardsburg and Augusta, Wormseed Mustard in Oxford, and Plantain in EJwardsburgh. 



Carleton. Sow Thistle spreading rapidly in Fitzroy and North Gower townships, and Blue 

 Weed becoming troublesome in the western portions of the county. 



Dundas. No report. 



Russell. Ribgrass, Ragweed, Cornflowers and Penny- Cress spreading in this county. 



Stormont. Perennial Sow Thistle lately introduced but spreading fast. 



Glengarry. Perennial Sow Thistle making rapid headway in every township. Other new 

 weeds spreading more or ICPS in this county are Ragweed, Penny-cress and Clr'cory. 



Prescott. Blue Weed very bad in Hawkesbury township, having been introduced from 

 Glengarry. Ragweed also becoming troublesome. 



As to the ways in which the above weeds have been introduced, the 

 answers are various, but the great majority of the correspondents men- 

 tion two agencies as chiefly responsible : (1) Impure seed, especially 

 grass and clover seed ; (2) Threshing machines. 



Several grades of clover seed are sold by seedsmen : No. 1, or 

 the best quality, is usually clean, but most of it is exported, as Canadian 

 farmers will not pay the price asked for this grade ; No. 2, or second 

 quality, is the kind generally sold in country stores throughout the 

 Province. Of the sixty samples referred to on a previous page, by far 

 the worst were from country stores, for which fact we cannot say that 

 the storekeepers are to blame any more than the farmers who refuse to 

 pay the price necessary to secure the best seed, 



We would again urge that every farmer, no matter what the asser- 

 tions or statements of sellers may be, should examine carefully with a 

 glass all grass and clover seed which he thinks of sowing on his land ; 

 and in case he discovers foreign seeds which he does not know, let him 

 send samples to the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, and all such 

 samples will be promptly examined and reported upon. 



