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2. Purchase the best the markets afford, as to plumpness, 

 brightness and freedom from weed seeds. If dealers do not keep 

 a satisfactory seed, demand better and it will be provided. It 

 is best to buy early before the rush of planting time. 



3. Farmers should watch their fields carefully, especially 

 after seeding, and destroy any new weeds that appear before they 

 seed and spread. This is absolutely necessary, as seed entirely 

 free from weed seeds is not on the market. 



4. Farmers should be alive to the importance of clean cul- 

 ture and the necessity of destroying weeds along roadsides, 

 fence corners, hedge rows and waste places. Weeds take the 

 food supply from plants grown for profit, reduce the yield 

 per acre and are themselves worthless. It takes time and 

 money to kill weeds and they yield no return. It becomes an 

 endless job if weeds are allowed to propagate themselves about 

 the fields and annually scatter a fresh supply of seeds. Better 

 strike a blow at the sources of weed seeds. It would be cheaper 

 in the end. 



5. Railroad companies should be made responsible for not 

 destroying weeds that spring up in car yards and about depots 

 where cars of western grains are unloaded, and along railroad 

 embankment where weeds frequently spring up from seed 

 brought long distances in ballast or dropped from passing cars. 

 It is unjust that the farming community should suffer from the 

 carelessness of corporations. Towns should be held responsible 

 for allowing weeds to grow in the streets and roads, around 

 lots, and in waste places, to become centres of distribution to 

 farms. 



6. Property owners, residents and non-residents should be 

 responsible for harboring weeds along the roadsides fronting 

 their property. This is desirable to protect careful farmers from 

 their shiftless, thriftless neighbors and from weed patches on 

 unoccupied land. 



7. As grain brought in by the carload harbors so many 

 weed seeds, the attention of farmers is called to the danger they 

 run in brinefinsr whole grain on the farm for feed. 



