Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . except on orna-mental grounds and in dooryards, from whence it can only be erad-icated by constant digging out of the roots before the fruits areformed. I have frequently noticed that cattle eat ef it without dis-tinction even when browsing in excellent grass. This plant is said to be a good antedote for the effects oflaurel on sheep (139); it also acts as an alterative and diuretic (123),and as a useful remedy for prolapsus in cattle (88). The leaveshave been much extolled as a remedy for the bites of reptiles (41
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . except on orna-mental grounds and in dooryards, from whence it can only be erad-icated by constant digging out of the roots before the fruits areformed. I have frequently noticed that cattle eat ef it without dis-tinction even when browsing in excellent grass. This plant is said to be a good antedote for the effects oflaurel on sheep (139); it also acts as an alterative and diuretic (123),and as a useful remedy for prolapsus in cattle (88). The leaveshave been much extolled as a remedy for the bites of reptiles (41,114), and insects (201). The fibrous stings of the leaf stems aresaid to be an excellent cure for toothache, if rolled in a ball andplaced in the ear on the affected side. It is said that the ballturns black if the pain is relieved, but remains green if not. 159. Buck Plantain. Btjckhorn Ribwort. English Plantain. (P.) Plantago lanceolata, L,There a few of our farmers who have not become too inti-mately acquainted with this miserable European immigrant that. 282 seems to be striving, and with much success,to take complete possession of our leaves are narrow and ribbed and unlessmuch crowded spread out flat upon the ground,thus tending to choke out the clover or grasses inwhich it grows. The seeds are of about thesame diameter the shorter way as those of redclover, thus being very difficult to separatefrom them; it is for this reason more than anyother that Ribwort is becoming so rapidly avery pernicious and aggressive weed. Groundis prepared for clover; these weed seeds areplanted in it in the most efficient manner; thusgiving them every chance in the world to growBuok*Plantain. and multiply. It is particularly on account of this weed that the chapter on Weeds and Market Seedsin part 4 of this bulletin. Several of our farmers have already rightly mistrusted clover seedsown by them as being the agent of the introduction of this weed(203);
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