102 Weeds. 



labor involved in doing this for a day of 

 ten hours is from $1.50 to $2.00, the entire 

 outlay for the whole work would not be 

 more than the sum already named, $30 to 

 $40. . When once a farm has become fair- 

 ly clean, a workman should easily be able 

 to go over it with a spud at the rate of ten 

 acres a day. That this is possible has been 

 demonstrated over and over again, in the 

 experience of the writer, in the work of 

 cleaning the Ontario Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station Farm at Guelph. Ten acres 

 have been frequently gone over in half a 

 day, and in one instance twenty acres were 

 done, but these results grew out of more 

 than ordinary efifort and arc to be regarded 

 as exceptional. One person can, however, 

 easily get over ten acres in a day, even 

 when some hundreds or even thousands 

 of weeds are to be destroyed. Twenty 

 days thus employed should take the spud- 

 der over the farm twice, hence the cost 

 would not be more tlian the sum named. 

 The whole farm would not, however, 

 require to be gone over thus twice a year. 

 One field of the farm would probably be 

 devoted to a cultivated crop, and v/ould 

 not require any spudding. Several fields 



