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sibly good for three years, waiting and 

 watching for you to put in a corn crop 

 where they have been slumbering. 

 Our grandmothers once thought that 

 catnip had its place in the domestic 

 economy. If its "tea" could only be 

 popularized we might send less money 

 annually to the Orient, for there is 

 ample provision made by Nature for 

 its reproduction on any desired scale. 

 Any thrifty plant carries stalks that 

 bear two or three hundred seed sheaths 

 that mature and open at the end, after 

 the manner of your old-fashioned dian- 

 thus or garden pinks; each pod with a 

 litter of, say, four little black "kittens," 

 each waiting only the sun and rain of 

 another season to grow up into nice 

 big catnips; and as for old "tansy," 

 she bears in her arms each September 

 enough of her own peculiar feathery 

 seeds to plant an acre. 



Knowest thou how the wild mustard 

 maintains its unwelcome presence in 

 the grain fields ? Have you calculated 



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