CHAPTER IX. 
WEEDS. 
T 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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