. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 130 ELEMENTS OF FAR31 PRACTICE To Eradicate Annual Weeds.—Keep weed seeds out of the soil and prevent the weeds that grow in the field from producing seed. To accomplish this, the following meth- ods will be found useful. Use only clean seed; that is, do not plant the weed seeds. Seed the fields down to tame grass for hay or pasture one or two years in every three to six years. Plant the land to cultivated crops such as corn, or potatoes, once or twice in every three to five cr six years,. Figure 57.—A crop of clover hay, a good thing to hold weeds in
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 130 ELEMENTS OF FAR31 PRACTICE To Eradicate Annual Weeds.—Keep weed seeds out of the soil and prevent the weeds that grow in the field from producing seed. To accomplish this, the following meth- ods will be found useful. Use only clean seed; that is, do not plant the weed seeds. Seed the fields down to tame grass for hay or pasture one or two years in every three to six years. Plant the land to cultivated crops such as corn, or potatoes, once or twice in every three to five cr six years,. Figure 57.—A crop of clover hay, a good thing to hold weeds in check. SO that it may be cultivated and the weeds killed in that way. In other words, clean seed and rotation of crops will make it easy to control annual weeds. Biennial weeds are those that live two years and then die. The first year they start from seed and make part of their growth. They live over winter, then the second year complete their growth, produce seed and die. There are but two common biennial weeds, bull thistle and burdock. We believe every country boy and girl know these two com- mon weeds. These two weeds do not cause trouble in cul- tivated fields, but are very bothersome in old pastures, along roadsides, and in waste places. To eradicate biennial weeds it is but necessary to keep them from producing seed. The roots will die in two years, so if no new seed is produced they will disappear. If the land can be plowed and planted to corn or grain for a few years, biennial weeds will disappear, as the plow-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875- [from old catalog]; Wilson, E. W. , [from old catalog] joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb publishing co.
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