22 Weeds. 



in the form of crops, merely what the weeds 

 allowed to grow there. This apathy seems 

 to arise, in part at least, from a lack of 

 belief in the possibility of destroying weeds 

 without incurring so much labor and 

 expense as to make the work unprofitable. 

 As the matter presents itself to the writer, 

 there is not a shadow of a hope that the 

 weeds of this continent will ever be 

 destroyed by the farmers, so long as their 

 complete eradication is looked upon as 

 impossible, or so long as the belief is har- 

 bored that the outlay of labor and expense 

 in completely eradicating them will not be 

 repaid by the greater gains that will be 

 obtained when once their destruction is 

 effected. 



Four propositions are now submitted 

 which bear upon the subject of the com- 

 plete eradication of weeds. So confident 

 is the writer of the soundness of these prop- 

 ositions that he makes them as strongly 

 affirmative as possible. They are as follows : 



(i) The noxious forms of w^eed life can 

 be completely eradicated on every farm 

 throughout the whole continent if the farm- 

 ers of these farms resolve that it shall be 

 done. 



