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DAMAGE FROM RUSSIAN THISTLE. 
Some of our daily papers are giving big 
reports from the West, particularly such 
States as Kansas and Nebraska, with re¬ 
gard to what they call Russian thistles or 
tumble weeds. We are told that during the 
late blizzards hundreds or thousands of 
these weeds were sent rolling over the snow, 
that they piled up against wire fences and 
even rolled into towns, closing the streets, 
making great piles, in some cases up nearly 
to the tops of the houses. How much truth 
is there really in these stories? 
If the conditions were right these 
things might be possible. Here there 
were many abandoned farms and but 
little fencing. If land is not farmed or 
cropped Russian thistles take complete 
possession of the soil, and it is hard for 
one who has not seen them grow to 
imagine how thick they grow, and after 
they have been frozen the wind breaks 
them off at the surface of the ground. 
They are very bushy, with stiff stems 
that catch lots of wind, and when the 
wind blows very hard I have seen 
patches six, eight, or 10 feet square start 
rolling in the wind, but they soon break 
into smaller parts like ice in rough 
water, and gradually separate, and 
where the ground is level and there is 
nothing to stop them they will travel as 
long as the wind blows. A wire fence is 
a good thing to catch them, and it is not 
an uncommon sight to see a solid wall 
four or more feet high, broad side to 
the wind, the fence posts 20 to 40 feet 
apart. In the high wind of January 27 
the wind blew 60 miles an hour, accord¬ 
ing to Government records at Pierre. 
You can see what a pressure it would 
have on that wall of thistles. Would it 
be too much to believe that the staples 
would in a whole day of jerking and 
pulling pull out of a soft wood post, or 
that the posts might break off? I can¬ 
not understand how they would block 
the streets unless there was some other 
obstruction there to stop them. It would 
be possible for them to bTow into some 
one’s back yard and pile up as high as 
the house, but it would not be a 20- 
story building. They do not commonly 
blow when there is snow on the ground, 
as the snow nearly always drifts in and 
around them and holds them down, yet 
some of them do blow over the snow 
that are blown off the fences. A single 
plant growing alone will grow to the 
height of two feet and four feet in 
diameter, making one-half of a sphere, 
as the bottom is as flat as the ground it 
grows on, and in blowing into piles they 
do not pack, but lie loose and make a 
big show. o. e. d. 
Giddings, S. D. 
Keeping Squash. 
B. C. A., Ohio .—I raised several tons of 
Hubbard squash for market but the market 
was so glutted with them I fed my hogs on 
them and consider them about good as corn 
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ing squash. 
Ans. —Personally I have not tried 
keeping Hubbard squash any great 
length of time after harvesting. They 
are kept, however, till nearly Spring, 
and successful^, too. The best method 
I know off is to have a little room that 
can be warmed. In this room place 
shelves a sufficient distance apart for 
one layer of squashes, one above the 
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If this room can be heated from below 
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storage when thoroughly dry. I have 
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in bulk in large quantity. 
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