. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. 192 AGRICULTURE quality of the yield. Wheat is damaged by cockle, wool is injured by burs, the flavor of milk and butter is affected by wild onions. Water hemlock and some other plants are poisonous to man and beast. How to destroy Weeds. — The good farmer tries to destroy weeds wdiile young, before they injure the crop. They are then easily killed by shal- low hoeing with a hand or horse hoe or a cultivator with small teeth. If weeds are cut off too near the sur- face, their roots live and send forth new growth; if they are cut off too d
. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. 192 AGRICULTURE quality of the yield. Wheat is damaged by cockle, wool is injured by burs, the flavor of milk and butter is affected by wild onions. Water hemlock and some other plants are poisonous to man and beast. How to destroy Weeds. — The good farmer tries to destroy weeds wdiile young, before they injure the crop. They are then easily killed by shal- low hoeing with a hand or horse hoe or a cultivator with small teeth. If weeds are cut off too near the sur- face, their roots live and send forth new growth; if they are cut off too deep dowm, they are only trans- planted and grow more vigorously. Weed Seed Sowing. — But how do weeds come in the fields where they are not planted? that is a matter to which thev at- COCKLEBUR Ah tend. The farmer is fortunate if he gets his field crops sowed as thoroughly as those weeds. In the first place, they usually produce an enormous number of seeds. A single plant will sometimes ma- ture a hundred thousand seeds one season. To spread these abroad, weeds make use of many messengers,—wind, water, birds, beasts, — yes, and people, too. Every time you pull off one of the hooked burs which. 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 Soule, Andrew MacNairn. [from old catalog]; Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952, joint author. Richmond, Atlanta [etc. ] B. F. Johnson publishing company
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