by tlioroiigh cultivating. It gives but little benetit to the laiul, how¬ 
ever. A much better method is to sow clover, millet, or rye, pasture 
it and plow it under while green. Corn, potatoes, beets, or any 
cultivatetl crop, well taken care of, will in two years rid the land not 
only of the Russian thistle but of nearly all other weeds. Sheep- 
are very fond of the plant until it becomes too coarse and woody.. 
By pasturing sheep on the young thistle it may be kept down, and 
tbe only valuable quality the plant has may be utilized. If the Rus¬ 
sian thistle is to be kept out of cultivated fields, it must be extermi¬ 
nated also along the roatisides. railroad grades, fire-breaks, waste- 
laiul, wherever the sod has been broken, and in all places where it 
may obtain an accidental foothold.” 
SUMMARY OF SU(9GESTED REMEDIES. 
1. Be careful that you do not sow Russian thistle seed with 
\’our crops, and especially look out for flax and millet seed that has 
been grown in proximity to thistles, as it is liable to contain thistle 
seeds. 
2. Let the people of every locality heartily co-operate to 
prevent any thistles going to seed, either in their cultivated fields or 
in waste lands or on the roadsides. 
3. Cultivate all land infested with the weed until the first of 
August, after which time it will not have time to grow and ripen 
its seeds. 
q. If by any means any weeds are allowed to go to seed, pull 
or cut them carefidly, witln)ut shattering out the seeds, and then 
burn them ; and then look out for that locality the next year, and 
promptly ])ull or cut all weeds that appear. 
5. Lands infested with thistles may be pastured with sheep, 
and the growth thus kept down ; but do not depend on the sheep 
alone, as they will not eat all the weeds, and some will go to seed ; 
but by so pasturing the labor of destroying the weeds mav be much 
reduced. 
6. Co-operate fully atid cheerfully witlv the officers of the 
law in all efforts to suppress this weed. 
7. Blowing under the weeds before they become stiff and 
woody, cutting them witli a mowing machine, pulling those in scat¬ 
tered places, carefully burning all that may be found with seed 
