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Weeds. 
I N few sections of the country can one 
ride along the country roads or village 
streets without noticing the rank growth 
of weeds, presenting an unsightly ap¬ 
pearance. crowding out desirable growths, 
sapping the ground of food and moisture, 
and reducing the pleasure and profit of 
country life. Unless our attention is es¬ 
pecially called to the subject we scarcely 
realize the damage done by weeds. A con¬ 
siderable portion of the farmer’s time and 
energy is expended in the perennial fight 
against them. It costs him each year 
days of time, dollars of money and back¬ 
aches galore lo keep them under any sort 
of control, and after all the time, labor 
and money spent in lighting them, it is 
estimated that they cost the country 
$100,000,000 annually in lessened crop 
yields. I have never yet seen a decent 
crop of corn or potatoes, and a crop of 
weeds on the same ground the same year. 
Weeds are not only a crop enemy, but 
they are an index to many things. No 
one would care to purchase property and 
make a home in a weed-grown village. 
We judge of a farm and a farmer by the 
appearance of his place. Costly build¬ 
ings alone do not make an attractive 
home, but a neat, clean weed-free proper¬ 
ty is always attractive, although the 
buildings may be old and out of style. I 
call to mind a farm, on which the build¬ 
ings are unusually well grouped, con¬ 
venient and expensive; the house alone 
cost over $7,000. the building sites are 
all that could he desired, and the place 
might be exceedingly attractive, but the 
rubbish and weeds along the roadsides 
and around the buildings render it un¬ 
sightly and repulsive. 
The damage done by weeds and rubbish 
is not alone a property damage. For we 
are all very sensitive to our surround¬ 
ings, and an ill-kept place is conducive 
to an ill-kept life. The moral and civic 
tone of a community can be judged by the 
appearance of its roadsides and door- 
yards. Weeds are enemies in still an¬ 
other way. They provide harbors and 
breeding places for insects and fungi 
which make those pests much harder to 
control. 
Weeds are wonderfully prolific. Single 
plants of some species will produce thou¬ 
sands of seeds, and many of them are 
possessed of remarkable vitality. Seeds 
of mayweed, pigweed, black mustard, 
shepherd’s purse, purslane, sour dock, 
pigeon grass, duckweed, mullein, etc., have 
been buried in the ground for 25 years 
and then found, under a favorable com¬ 
bination of air, heat and moisture, to 
spring into vigorous growth. Every Fall 
we see gardens nnd fields that have, at 
great cost of time and labor, been kept 
clean all through the forepart of the sea¬ 
son, abandoned to weeds, which fill the 
ground with countless tnousands of seeds, 
ready to spring forth and plague the far¬ 
mer and gardener for a generation to 
come. I want to urge everyone who has 
land under his control, both farmers and 
townsfolks, to keep up the fight against 
weeds. 
The most effective way to fight most 
species is to prevent them from maturing 
seeds. According to their habits of 
growth, and their longevity, weeds are 
divided into three groups, annuals, bi¬ 
ennials and perennials. Annuals germin¬ 
ate in the Spring and produce flowers 
and seeds the same season and die. Ex¬ 
amples are ragweed, smart weed, pigweed, 
barnyard grass, foxtail, etc. Biennials 
produce a growth of short stems and 
leaves the first season, live over Winter 
and produce flowers and seeds the second 
year. Mullein, burdock, wild carrot, 
Sweet clover, etc., belong to till. class. 
Perennials live a number of years and 
produce flowers and seeds each year. Itep- 
resontatives of this class are our common 
docks, wild morning-glory, horse nettle, 
buckhorn, common plantain, quack grass, 
yarrow, etc. This last to be exterminated 
must be dug up and destroyed. But for 
all the groups the thing that will pro¬ 
duce the largest results for the time and 
effort expended, is the prevention of seed¬ 
ing. 
A general war on weeds would accom¬ 
plish millions of times as much good as 
the war in Europe now raging. It would 
not cost a millionth as much in treasure, 
and of suffering and heartache there 
would be nothing, for weeds do not suffer. 
Let’s declare war. F. &. allejj. 
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matter how well formed a horse may he otherwise if his feet are 
not sound he is of little value. The same principle applies to 
humans and particularly to farmers—their efficiency depends 
largely upon the comfort and protection which their feet receive 
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