WEEDS. II 



The enormous increase which may result from 

 allowing weeds to seed may be conceived from a study 

 of the following list, which shows the number of seeds 

 each of the weeds named is capable of producing in a 

 single season : — 



From the above may be gathered the significant fact, 

 that — after allowing a wide margin for the casualties 

 to which seeds are constantly liable — yet plenty would 

 be left, even where seeding is allowed but for a single 

 year, to give trouble for many years after. 



What Should be Done. 



It is apparent to all who have studied the matter, 

 that if farming in Great Britain and Ireland is to con- 

 tinue to afford a living to those connected with land, 

 it can only be done by allowing none of the resources 

 of the soil to go to waste, or to be diverted from the 

 use and benefit of mankind. We must consider weeds 

 as the persistent and implacable enemy of the farmer, 

 and, through him, of all mankind. If we are to 

 flourish they must go to the wall, and vice versd. 

 Whatever way the problem of weed extirpation is 



