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the efifort to banish weeds from their prem- 

 ises, no one engaged in agriculture should 

 refrain from doing all that he possibly can 

 to bring about this result. Though our 

 neighbors should not now believe in the 

 possibility of being able to banish noxious 

 weeds from their farms, if our own farms 

 are made clean and kept clean, the evidence 

 thus presented will in time have its due 

 measure of influence. 



2, The complete eradication of noxious 

 weeds can be effected zvithoitt heavy outlay 

 if the zvork be done in a proper way. To 

 argue the truth of this proposition in an 

 abstract, theoretical fashion would be to 

 spend time to but little purpose. It would 

 not succeed in winning many converts to 

 the truth. Those who cherish the belief in 

 reference to weeds that "the thing that 

 hath been is that which shall be" cannot be 

 reached by any such line of reasoning. The 

 evidence of actual accomplishment is the 

 only testimony which they will not be 

 inclined to reject. Evidence of this kind 

 is not very plentiful, as our farmer readers 

 must know very well. Therefore, because 

 of the lack of the necessary data from other 

 sources bearing upon the cost of cleaning 



