Why is a Weed? 



adapt them to our own personal uses. 

 But a few years back we felt just as 

 much contempt for the burdock's lusty 

 roadside brother Melilotus the sweet 

 clover of every farm-boy's memory. 

 Today it is sown and called a hay crop, 

 besides being an alfalfa indicator. The 

 haymakers who worked that out are 

 about as illustrious citizens, I should 

 say, as the lawmakers who go to 

 Congress and draw the big black 

 letters on the first page. 



So we make war on weeds. We 

 make war on weeds for the same reason 

 that we made war on the Indian and 

 the buffalo. In both these latter cases 

 they stood in our way. That was 

 their chief offense. We wanted what 

 they were enjoying for ourselves, and 

 by reason of our superior cunning we 

 got it. Then, in the case of the bison, 

 there was besides the "sport" of killing. 

 Fun to see the big bull go down under 

 a rain of rifle balls, wasn't it? Sport? 

 Yes, I suppose that is what you would 



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