104 Weeds. 



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other noxious weeds ; while in the 

 fence corners there may be some 

 burdocks or cockle burs. Now, in 

 one day, one person can remove all 

 these weeds with the spud. If this 

 be done, the thousands and tens of 

 thousands of seeds which these 

 plants would have produced never 

 come into existence, and the future 

 infinite supply of these weeds is 

 also effectually checked. A corre- 

 sponding saving in the labor that 

 would otherwise have been ulti- 

 mately required in subduing these 

 weeds is also effected. 



It may not be amiss here to de- 

 scribe that form of the spud which 

 in the estimation of the writer, is 

 best adapted to the uses of the 

 farmer. The chisel spud as usually 

 made, may be described as follows : 

 It consists of a light round handle, 

 resembling that of a broom, and of 

 a blade which is shaped somewhat 

 like that of a chisel, but more tap- 

 ering from the end of the blade 

 to the junction with the handle. Its chtd 



Spud 



