2o6 JVceds. 



the late autumn. Grow a cultivated crop 

 the following season. 



2. After-harvest and autumn cultivation, 

 follozved next season by a soiling crop, and 

 this by a quick- growing cultivated crop. 

 In the case of tilled- fields that are infested. 

 ])low just after harvest, and thereafter give 

 due attention to surface cultivation. Next 

 season grow a soiling crop, and follow that 

 with rape, sorghum, or some other quick- 

 growing cultivated crop, grown as described 

 in section 3 of our treatment of the Canada 

 thistle. 



5. Using the niozver, or scythe. In places 

 where cultivation cannot be introduced, per- 

 sistently use the mower or scythe to keep 

 the plants from maturing their seeds, or, 

 if practicable, use the spud to cut ofif the 

 plants below the surface of the ground. 



(3) BINDWEED. 



The two common species of bindweed 

 {Convolvulus sepiuni and C. arvensis) are 

 very similar creeping perennials witli trail- 

 ing habits of growtli. As they are so simi- 

 lar, they will be disc^'sscd under tlic same 

 heading. Bindweed, or as it is often called, 

 wild morning glory, usually grows to the 



