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Fic. 101. 
a seed-leaves; 
leaves; m,n,0, 
m 
b,c, 
especially, is used with too little judgment. 
Leaves of rag-weed at all ages; 
d,e, successively older 
p,g,7, 8, leaves successively 
formed on a fruiting spray; z, a fruiting tip. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM 
be infested with seeds in 
manure from a weedy 
barnyard; or with seeds 
carried in by the stock 
turned on to feed; or with 
seeds gathered from a 
weedy roadside and carried 
in on wagon wheels. 
The farmer, above all 
persons, should know that 
nature will be raising 
something on every bit of 
ground; and that if he 
destroy her more perman- 
ent crops, that something 
will be weeds. Weeds fol- 
low the ax and the scythe 
and the plow as summer 
followsspring. Thescythe, 
The altogether 
harmless and altogether beautiful goldenrods and asters 
fringing many a roadside are mown to extermination to 
make a place for ragweeds and mulleins to grow. The 
native shrubbery under the 
trees is cut away to make a 
place for burdocks. Such 
sort of self-inflicted vandalism 
destroys the beauty of the 
farm and increases its drud- 
gery. If the farmer is so 
ignorant that every green 
thing, that is not a crop- 
plant, is to him a weed and 
Fic. 102. Better than weeds in the fence- 
row—the maple-leaved viburnum. 
to be treated accordingly, then in increased labor and 
in thesweat of his brow he must pay the cost of his stupidity. 
