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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



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Noxious Weeds. — Among the subjects discussed at the wide-awake farmer^' 

 meeting of Wisconsin, is that of no.xious weeds, and considering the rapidity 

 with which they are gaining ground on our farms and orchards and gardens of 

 Ontario, it appears to us that we ought to make that a more common subject for 

 discussion at farmers' meetings throughout Ontario ; not, perhaps, in mere general 

 terms, but one by one they should each ccmc under discussion, until every farmer 

 is up in arms against the lar}.(e army uf noxious weeds which threaten to (.lri\e 

 him from his farm. 



The common burdock, Lappa Offi- 

 cinalis, is one of our worst weeds, 

 and one which pathmasters, as well as 

 farmers, too often al 

 lested in waste corners. 



more troublesome in the orchard, and ''^^^5i:^'>^'^'v'^^^iv;f\lJ|f/SilW^ 



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none harder to eradicate, especially "v^'^^'-'idS^I »i4^ -^.•rz-crss^-^ 



where the ground is left any time in 

 gra.ss. We are inclined to commend 

 the practice of Mr. Cole, of Wisconsin, 

 who says that in his experience the best (.„ 



method of eradicating them is by 



cutting them off about two or three inches bt-low the surface ot the i;roiiiul dur- 

 ing the first year of their growth. We believe that this is better than the praetiie 

 that we have been following, namely, of cutting them the second year, as late in the 

 season as possible, just before the seeds were mature. We hoped that, in this 



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