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and my corn nearly sixty-eight bushels per acre. 

 There is no waste land in my fields, and we have 

 made such a strenuous fight against weeds that 

 they no longer seriously tax the land. The wis- 

 dom of the work done on the fence rows is now 

 apparent. The ploughing and seeding made it 

 easy to keep the brush and weeds down ; hay 

 gathered close to the fences more than pays us 

 for the mowing ; and we have no tall weed heads 

 to load the wind with seeds. This is a matter 

 which is not sufficiently considered by the major- 

 ity of farmers, for weeds are allowed to tax the 

 land almost as much as crops do, and yet they 

 pay no rent. Fence lines and corners are usually 

 breeding beds for these pests, and it will pay any 

 landowner to suppress them. 



