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cumstances. Note the wonderful color 

 of this maturing grain and the infinite 

 grace and delicacy of the thistle-down 

 itself. There is beauty unexcelled else- 

 where in Nature inside each thistle pod 

 that manages to evade man's warfare 

 upon it. I suppose chemists have 

 tried, as yet in vain, to find the secret 

 of the value of this grain and the 

 dainty fibre attached to it. If both 

 are not brought forth for someone's 

 comfort or pleasure, why in the world 

 has Nature gone to such extreme to 

 safeguard its maturity? These seem to 

 be among the few things that even 

 German science has not yet found use 

 for. If they were not brought into the 

 kingdom for our benefit then what 

 moral right have we to seek their 

 absolute extermination? 



The Canada thistle is the one special 

 object of man's wrath in this latitude. 

 It disputes doggedly the idea that this 

 country belongs to the plow. It is the 

 one black-listed outlaw of the fields, 



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