'1' M tC KUR.A.L IM E W -YORKER 
99 
1915. 
HOW THEY FOUGHT QUACK GRASS. 
I HAD rented my land for a few years 
to a man not familiar with hard work, 
and he broke up a piece of meadow that 
had become rather quacky, and planted 
it to corn. By the time the corn was 
up the quack was ahead of it, and he 
put off cultivating until he said it would 
not pay to do anything with it, and let it 
„ 0 . Of course the corn was not worth 
harvesting. His time expired that Fall 
and I hired a man to plow the piece 
(which was nicely sodded with quack) 
about eight inches deep. I intended to 
harrow it, but it froze up too soon. In 
the Spring, as soon as the ground was 
dry, I commenced harrowing deep and 
often, and I soon had so many roots on 
top of the ground that I took the weeder 
and gathered them in piles and drew 
them off; then went over it again with 
disk and harrow, always choosing drying 
days as it is useless to try to kill quack 
in wet ground. By this time the quack 
looked sick. I then marked it three feet 
both ways and planted to corn again. As 
soon as the corn showed up the cultivator 
also showed up, and after the piece was 
kept thoroughly cultivated and hoed 
twice, but by the last hoeing there was 
scarcely any quack. Of course this was 
expensive, but it would have done you 
good to go through that piece of corn, 
towering ’way above one’s head, with the 
long ears bending out into the row, al¬ 
most making it impossible to travel and 
scarcely a spear of quack in sight. The 
past year I plowed and planted to pota¬ 
toes, and gave good tillage in dry weath¬ 
er, and the quack has not been back. I 
expect to sow to Alfalfa and oats in 
Spring. I believe (after 20 years’ ex¬ 
perience) the secret of success in killing 
quack is to plow in the Fall and plow 
deep if the quack goes deep, and then 
work as deep as you plow, and in the 
driest weather you can get, and keep 
ahead of it rather than behind; you will 
not be bothered long with quack. 
New York. n. H. 
I note on, page 6, the rotation proposed 
by A. H. to kill quack grass, which 
I do not believe will be effective, as it 
is hardly possible to kill quack effectually 
without an inter-tilled crop. The rota¬ 
tion I would propose is as follows: 1. 
Plow early in Spring and sow to early 
factory peas to be harvested as early in 
June as possible. 2. Plow again as soon 
as possible and plant potatoes. 3. Sow 
to rye as soon as the potatoes are har¬ 
vested. 4. Plow down rye in Spring and 
spring-tooth weekly until the proper time 
in August to seed to Alfalfa. It will be 
noticed that there will be no crop to har¬ 
vest the second year, but there will be 
two crops the first, and each should be 
a paying crop. We have harvested a 
fairly good crop of potatoes, after factory 
peas, planted as late as the fifth of July, 
and the cultivation necessary for the po¬ 
tatoes will be very detrimental to the 
quack grass. 
If Alfalfa is sown in mid-summer I 
do not believe it will be necessary to 
sow oats as a protection, as the Alfalfa 
should be large enough to take care of it¬ 
self so far as Winter freezing is con¬ 
cerned. I should use 100 or 200 pounds 
of acid phosphate and potash on the peas, 
200 pounds of 2-S-10 fertilizer on the po¬ 
tatoes and 200 pounds of steamed bone 
meal on the rye at time of seeding and 
a few loads of good stable manure before 
it is plowed down in the Spring. Such 
a rotation should rid the ground of quack 
grass and furnish enough plant food and 
humus to grow a crop of Alfalfa, provid¬ 
ed the other conditions necessary to grow 
Alfalfa are present. F. M. L. 
Ohio. 
Smoke Cuke For Skunks. —I was in¬ 
terested to read a few weeks ago that the 
smoke cure for skunk perfume had been 
tried successfully in the West. I had an¬ 
other confirmation of my belief in the ef¬ 
ficacy of smoke as a deodorizer during the 
Fall. Three boys came to school (I am 
a pedagogue) with their clothes betray¬ 
ing their intimacy with one of nature’s 
perfumers. Their teachers declined to 
have them in their rooms, and sent them 
to my office. I sympathized with them, 
for they reminded me of my own boy¬ 
hood days, and sent them home to try 
smoke, directing them how to make a 
smudge with wet hay. I learned later 
that they used cornstalks. Evidently the 
source of the smoke is of no importance. 
In less than an hour they returned to 
their respective rooms with a strong odor 
of smoke clinging to their clothing, but 
not a trace of skunk. w. H. huse. 
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