WEEDS AMONG CORN. 



Or, as it is also said by Graham, 



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"Now is the time before the thistle blows, 

 While gule is in the flower, and charlock breathes 

 Its cloying scent around, the weeding task 

 To urge." 



The weeds most disliked by the farmer are those 

 which injure his sample of corn by mingling their seeds 

 with it. There are seldom more than two or three sorts 



to be discovered in any one sample of corn, but these 

 are too many, and need not be present where due 

 caution is employed. The corn cockle is the principal 

 weed infesting wheat. It is in blossom when the wheat 

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