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as above provided for, it shall be the duty of the chairman to have a sufficient num- 
ber of copies of this act with such schedule annexed printed and distributed by 
mail in the following manner: one copy to each State, county and township officer, 
and one copy to each daily and weekly newspaper published within the State; and 
the schedule so adopted or modified shall be published in the same manner as the 
public statutes are published. 
The thorough advertisement of weed laws will do much to secure 
their observation. Unlike criminal laws, which apply chiefly to men 
who have little respect for right and justice aside from the fear of 
penalty, the weed laws apply usually to men who obey just laws with- 
out compulsion by the courts, and in most cases a knowledge of the 
law will be sufficient warning to enforce its provisions. Copies should 
be sent to agricultural and other papers for publication so as to dis- 
Seminate a knowledge of its provisions as widely as possible among 
the people. 
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of every owner, lessee, or occupier of land in this 
State, and of every owner, lessee, or occupier of any city, town, or village lot, upon 
whose land or lot any of the weeds named in the schedule provided for in this act 
shall be found growing, to destroy the same or cause them to be destroyed at or 
before the time or times mentioned in said schedule and in the mode therein 
described, or in such other manner as shall absolutely prevent the ripening and 
spread of their seed. 
In nearly all cases the landowner can do this work at much less cost 
than it can be done by public authorities, and in arable fields it can 
usually be done in the ordinary operations of cultivation. 
Sec. 7. The board of supervisors in each county in this State shall on the first 
Monday of in each year appoint one weed inspector for each township or elec- 
tion district in their county, who shall qualify and hold office until his successor is 
appointed and qualified. It shall be the duty of each weed inspector to inspect or, 
upon the approval of the board of supervisors, employ assistants and have inspected 
all lands or lots within his election district within three days succeeding the expira- 
tion of the time or times mentioned in Schedule A for the destruction of weeds; 
and if any weeds specified in the said schedule are found on any such lands or lots 
the inspector shall notify the owner thereof in writing to destroy them; andif the 
weeds are not destroyed within five days after the service of notice the weed inspec- 
tor shall employ labor, if necessary, and enter the lands and destroy or cause to 
be destroyed in the most practicable and economical manner [or in the manner 
prescribed in the schedule] all of the weeds mentioned in said schedule. 
In States where an annual inspection of the land is impracticable 
sections 7 and 8, as found on page 14, may be substituted for the cor- 
responding sections here given. For thickly settled farming commu- 
nities, and especially for cities and villages, an annual inspection is 
strongly recommended. In most instances all the land in a township 
6 miles square can be inspected sufficiently for the purposes of detect- 
ing noxious weeds, by one man, in three days’ time. With such an 
inspection most weeds would be discovered upon their first introduction, 
when they could be completely eradicated at slight expense. Even the 
best farmers seldom notice a newly introduced weed until it has pro- 
duced seeds two or three seasons, and becomes aggressive on their 
