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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. 
