Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . The Canada Thistle{Circium arvense).1B—Seed enlarged. WEEDS AND THEIR ERADICATION 359 dragged ately with the spike-tooth harrowroots. These should beraked to one end of the field, to bedried in piles and then burned. Theground should be plowed the secondtime, late in the fall. This should bedone crossways of the first ground should be worked downagain with the harrow and as many ofthe rootstocks dragged out, piled andburned as possible. The next spring cultivation shoul
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . The Canada Thistle{Circium arvense).1B—Seed enlarged. WEEDS AND THEIR ERADICATION 359 dragged ately with the spike-tooth harrowroots. These should beraked to one end of the field, to bedried in piles and then burned. Theground should be plowed the secondtime, late in the fall. This should bedone crossways of the first ground should be worked downagain with the harrow and as many ofthe rootstocks dragged out, piled andburned as possible. The next spring cultivation shouldbegin as early as possible, the groundbeing worked every few days. Then acultivated crop should be planted,preferably corn. The corn should beplanted in hills so that cultivationcan be given both ways of the corn should be cultivated thor-oughly and a close watch kept for This will drag out a great many of theor. Quack Grass {Agropyrou rcpens) any stray quack grass which may come up. If there is any doubt as to whetherthe quack grass is completely killed, amixture of hairy vetch and rye should besown in the last cultivation of the cover crop should be plowed down thenext spring and a heavy seeding of milletsown. The cover crop and the millet fol-lowing the corn will surely smother out thelast of the quack grass. A thick covering of straw or manure afoot or so thick and well packed down, willsmother out the grass. It will take fromtwo to three months to smother out quackgrass, as the roots remain alive for sometime even though the tops above groundbe dead. Foxtail.—The grem and yellow foxtails are very similar in appearance and in habit. They are both annuals and propagate by seed alone, seeding from August to October. The yellow foxtail is a common weed all over the world, while the green foxtail is found mostly in North America. The seed of the foxtails are common impurities in ma
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