Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . hods of weed dissemination? 4. What methods of dissemination of weed seeds have you observed? 5. What are some of the principles of weed control? 6. Enumerate the chief kinds of losses from weeds. 7. Discuss the presence of weeds and grasses in orchards. References.—U. S. Farmers Bulletins: 279, Eradicating Johnson Grass;610, Wild Onion; 660, Weeds. R. I. Exp. Station Bulletin 133, Weeds, theirEradication and Control. Manual of Weeds, Georgia, Macmillan Company; Weeds of Farm andGarden, Pammel, Orange Judd C
Horticulture, a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; . hods of weed dissemination? 4. What methods of dissemination of weed seeds have you observed? 5. What are some of the principles of weed control? 6. Enumerate the chief kinds of losses from weeds. 7. Discuss the presence of weeds and grasses in orchards. References.—U. S. Farmers Bulletins: 279, Eradicating Johnson Grass;610, Wild Onion; 660, Weeds. R. I. Exp. Station Bulletin 133, Weeds, theirEradication and Control. Manual of Weeds, Georgia, Macmillan Company; Weeds of Farm andGarden, Pammel, Orange Judd Co. CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOME WOOD LOT The farm home is not complete without a wood lot or shelterbelt of trees (Fig. 254). Homes in the prairie states, as well asthose in the natural ly wooded regions, should have a block of treespermanently growing for the shelter and products which it densely populated countries of the Old World find the princi-ples of forestry worth following m the maintenance of wood products are so valuable that we ought not to continually. Fig. 254.—Trees, vines and shrubs not only add to the beauty of the farm home but theshade insures comfort to people and livestock. neglect their production and ruthlessly destroy our native forestswithout doing something to conserve and replenish the productswhich we need so much. Products of the Wood Lot.—Wood lots in general yield manyproducts valuable on the farm, in the manufactures and in com-merce. The following products have been enumerated: Nuts andfruits, sugar and syrup (Fig. 255), quinine, salicin, oils of sassafras,eucalyptus, beechnut and olive, matches, tooth picks, clothesl^ins, pencils, penholders, handles, baskets, shoe pegs, woodendishes, wood alcohol, acetates, wood tar, potash, turpentine, resin,creosote, pitch, cork, tannic acid, charcoal, spruce gum, lampblack, excelsior, lumber, posts, poles, ties, fuel, and pulp. 355 S56 THE HOME WOOD LOT The Farmers Needs.^—From the f
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