CHAPTER IX. 



WEEDS. 



IT is not enough to know what to grow, you 

 must also know what not to grow for profit, 

 in a garden patch; and first in this class 

 come weeds. Study them until you know even 

 their seeds. You cannot expect to get rid of 

 weeds until you know the nature of them and 

 the best way to attack them, so that they may 

 be readily destroyed. If you run across any 

 common ones that you cannot place, send sample 

 to the Department of Agriculture. They will 

 tell you all about them. Get from the De- 

 partment Farmer's ' Bulletin 28 on " Weeds and 

 How to Kill Them." All this will pay. 



One of the most common of the weeds of 

 the north is the pigweed. This is the growth 

 of one year and can be destroyed by simply 

 preventing it from running to seed. A year or 

 two will clear out even the most obstinate 

 growth of pigweed. 



Mustard, plantain, chess, dodder, cockle, 

 crab-grass and Jimsonweed are the most dis- 

 agreeable of the common weeds. The best 

 time to kill them is when they are small; there- 

 fore, you should keep the ground constantly 

 stirred up that the young weeds may not have 



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