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don't buy " mixtures " which are 25 per cent, or more sand 

 or some other make weight— buy your requirements 

 separately and mix for yourself. 



CHAPTER VI. 



'• Cleanliness is next to Godliness." We all agree to 

 this, then don't forget your farm, keep it 



Weeding. , ., . . ^ u u 



clean ; if its importance could be 



measured by words many chapters might be devoted to the 



subject of " Weeding." Grass crops and cereal crops must 



be clean and weeded systematical!}', a dirty farm means a 



bad farmer, to neglect weeding on the score of economy 



is both false and foolish, sooner or later it has to be done 



or you will have more weeds than grass, the longer it is left 



the more difficult the work and the greater the expense. 



How many "issues of green grass" in the monsoon 



season are utterly damned by weeds ? Can you possibly expect 



to issue green grass containing 20 — 50 percent, of weed? No 



wonder there are complaints and no wonder that horses refuse 



to eat such a ration ; and hay containing a similar percentage 



though not so noticeable and therefore perhaps "shoved 



through " can only be called fourth class and the reverse of a 



credit to the farm, the manager, and the department. 



Silage containing weed is possible and usually good 



and edible, but this is only a " get out ; " 

 Vide Chapter XII. J & ' 



It would be better if it were entirely 

 good clean grass or crops, besides ensilage is quite a second- 

 ary consideration as a rule on most Military Grass Farms 

 except as a means of disposal of our "surplus" green grass 

 in the rainy season. Clean your plots for all you are worth, 

 and rest assured it will more than repay you in the long run, 

 give you peace of mind and an easy conscience if your heart 

 is in the work. Admitted it is hard, very hard, to leave your 

 farm after 3 or 4 years' good, conscientious work and every- 

 thing in tip top order, to go and take over a neglected show, 



