Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 10, 1910, Page 13

[THE FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS PEIISISTEIT WEEDS REOUIRE PERSISTENT WORK r The problem of o al I o the Puliotin.) werdr n earth i stay kitled? me that secret ake n present of the to my fellow furm n bless him every day Of cour 1 mean nome kil weeds and not everything eds, way to For a good many years I've been sking 1 1 of my tellow farm foners, " I'v been resding i the general subject in s papers 1 onn get hold of; studying the methods rec the various sgricultural stations and 've been ind experimenting and swent I. personally, with these nve worn hand-hos yeara, fighting weeds, wft of It but the han neck.” And it's th poor hoo has had, handls that As a result of much reading and sl-nching work, 1've arrived jefinite conclusion that the on way to kill weeds Is to sit on jon—and watch somebody else That is easy enough, but, alas at all effective. The durned won't stay dead. Chop off their and they promptly poke up their r thelr lags and atart new heads ands of n ‘em. Dig ‘em out, root but If you lenve one root- | & hair and as long as a t will immaediately start a Take ‘om all up with a fine «d comb. drag ‘em off to the road burn ‘em, with turpentine ne and gasoline. Before ot mck to your weeded fleld, birdie-birdis will half @ dozen fresh seecds the thing going again. An old Shaker frisnd said to me ones that ho beliaved the earth was as 1 ot weed-seeds, to its very center, . plum pudding is of raisins. Why," sald he, “T once dug a sixty- 0ot deep well. In one week after it dug weeds were growing out of o dirt taken from the very hottom | nd thrown on the top of the heap. me whers they ame from?" An- r case of “Topsy,” thought 1; ne came from ywhera, “jest grow- Hy old father spent a good part of | ife fighting four espacially hateful e quack gras ‘wnada thistles, ve foraver and that wild snapdragon, | inown loeally as stinkweed, sometimes | Isewhers called “butter and oggn.” The two latter named he used to fight with salt. Whenedor he found a stray plant of either he would spread at enst & painful of salt over it and the 17 irrounding territory, sometimes eov- ng a plot eight or ten feet in diam- er lis meadows and pastures were otted with these d-brown places vhers every decent plant had been ed until the whole farm sometimes woked as if 1t had had the smallpox. L was not often that the weeds to stick up their pesky heads around the edges of his circles, with- in & year or two after he had salted the original plant ontinu- battle, have used several tons cattle malt on isolated patches of ‘hess pests in ths last ten years. But °re are more patches now, and big- . than when I took up the contest. Quack grass the old gentlemen used to fight by plowing It up and digging | the roots out painfully and slowly. Of rse, he never got absolutely all the le pleces of root out of the ground. ils deep mnd thorough cultivation mply gave & better start to the re nainder. ‘The Invariable resuit wa: heavier and denser growth of quack « second season. All his work avail- 1 was to give him a slight respite for . Then he aid It all over nada thistles he used to puil oots, using a pair of long- the blackem'th’s tongs to save his from the prickers, and then by ad nwers the ealt. This didn't kill the ng% completely, but it surely did dis- eo that, after sixty of constant pulling and saltting wred his_firm belisf that he vould have 'em “about whipped” if he only keesp at ‘em a few years But his plan isn't so success- ful with me. On nd © never allows quack-grass | worry him: he just lete the stuff| mow if it wants to and he finds that | t will pretty soop “run itself out.” ‘s such a greely feeder, such a verit- bie vegetable hog at’ growing, that t evemtually exhausts the availabie ood fn the sofl and dies of sheer etar- ition. But, again, this dom't work th me. 1 liave one small patch| vhere 1 tried. twenty yoars ago, to| fmize strawberries. The quack choked | plants and finally killed them. I| et the patch severely alone from | e . Tast eunmes I tried b0 | a bit of it and found the roots | ok and matted that we had to| down shrough them with an old hber of mine with lots of | v rork ®efore we could lift a turf less two feet square. There were| dead roots in the mat, but more| v 1 think the stuff is actually | that when a big old 6 or three voung roots | » to feeding on it,—so that, re of it dies, the more humus it nourksh new weeds. Quack won't grow on poor ground,” ier meighbor. Perhaps it | on his poor ground, but ft will | 1e. 1 have a gravel ridge so poor | that it won't grow beans without fer- tMaing the drille but #t will grow mne 1 quack anywhere and | . There’s Nothing Better B T No [all wtuff is by mer fallowing: by giving up a me 1 1o the work, Kkeeplug the ground plowed and hur- rowed 5o that not & wingle green thin | shall be allowed to appear above the surface to hreathe, a wholie lot of hard work, and practically deprive you of | the tise of the land for o full Beason It will kil the quack, however. Fut it won't help vou anmy with the seven hundred and seventy-seven other kinds of weeds which at once come in to make things companion for you when you SLATt your next erop, vt ira you going o with them? T mly 1 know 18 to hoe and hoe and keep n hoeing: weed and weed and keep | T Toed ana | it 13 hard to say which s the mo Tt | * {he can do it and u ‘Fhese profits er all made when miik was selling at eight cents a quart. | Bear mind t milk trust w piling 1 t & surplus { and paying these big dividends=an s | sregate of 120 y r. The only earthly y 1 ean 11 the m weeding. agricultural authority recom- the use of you'll v Bix ¥ the Ons mends e over 1 weeds, a lap of at least it welghted Aown Hft it or the and let it lie thus for tavs, It will kill the I should think it might yow've put on your tar-y the first of May, ving the first of July, “ huckwheat later don’t think the buckwh semt off an acre plot tre would pay a biz profit on paper and the labor of proad and welghting it and tehing it e fhunder-storm or st fugthermore, do yon Ny suppe that there’d be any f er woeds that acre, the after, when ried to put some erop? weeds push And e T #'po on the patc it wind-g re it into 1t isn't only quack-grass and Can- | ada thisgles and a few wuch obstreper Tus weeds that bother us:—it's the| smaller fry which come from heaven knows where, it come every time and all the time. 1 once started to make a list of the differant varieties of weeds pulled from my littie jon-hed. I knew ohickweed and y and redroot and plgweed and &h s purse and mustard and mallow and plantain and seurvy grass and | quack-grass and erab grass and bent grass and some others, but, say, I hadn't erawled a dozen foet along th first row before T had a dozen other kinds that [ didn't even know the names of! 1 gave it up, ri Aecided that I'd have to pul T eut 'em off without walting for al introduction. So I never sett exactly, how many kinds of weeds d grow on that onfon-bed But th ware quite some; of fhat iny sore knees and my worn fingers and my aching back gave me testimony before I got through A t on bed | which had been lowed the season befors, o that not a single green shoot of a eingle weed had once showed | above the surface. 8o far as my experience goes. 5pca ing a8 @ gardemer rather than many-acre-cultivating famer, the on way to get any comfort at all out 1y | ot | seds is to treat 'ern as a hlessing, after all. The secret of successfui| crop-growing lies In just two words fertilization and Uiage. Of these portant. It s one-legzod ing which triss doing without either. But | tillage cafls for more work than fenti ization, and we're all of us apt to neg- lect it or scant it. Rizht there come in the weeds. If your land is “clean” you may be tempted to let it alone, on | the ground that it doesn’t need culti- | vating. But it does, just the same. | And the weeds wake you up to it | There are lots of farmers wiho wouldn't take the time from other work to cul- tivate thelr corn or potatoes just to make a dust-mulch and stop the soil from baking and fill up the cracks and conserve the sub-surface moistur lots of farmers wouldn't do this, but who witl burry the teams and boys to | the patch when the weeds and gra begin to show thick over it. Yet mere- Iy killing the weeds s less helpful to the crop than the tillage which the process necessitates, If all farmers, sverywhere, would only cultivate their crops thoroughiy and persistently, for the sake of the advantage won by the cultfvation, then we should have to admit that weeds, from the farmer’s point of view, were an unmitigated nuisance. But so long as many of us neglect this primary and fundamental part of our work as tillers of the soil, let’s admlit that the weeds are sort o' useful, after all When they stick up theit green tops through the dirt, all over a field, it's| as if about ten thousand of the little | buggers were calling out: “Hey, old wake up and get out here to THE FARMER. Milk Profits. Times-Leader has The commuication in part as follc rece man can deliver pure m sumers for eight cents a out losing money. T ke money ef too_ignorant which t deliberately lles or careless to ke or | p books the trut; We shall not at this time say that can be said T nine neithe we that profit eight-cen ble rate—rey Imit it and official as furnished convinci that effect One year ago in York, when grain v higher than it is vestigation by vealed absolute company the s s $4 or 35 n the attorney proof had made that for the year ending Septem of $2,617,029, w cli was nes cent. on the total amount of invested. The Shefield Farms—Skwson-Deck- er company paid on its capital including water, 12 per each vear since its inco idend for the year 190 lividend the per addition rolled up | all on an original 0. investment of $20¢, cent ! it in e months in one inst claim was made that milk could not be sold at | clght cents per quast without loss and | the price was advanced to hine c a quart. it is the same =ong i Taven that was sung in New Yo the same same here that was played there its | —it's a game that hits t of poor people and hits them un- justly, greedily.—New Haven Times- Leader. New Jersey maintal its tigh | standard of public schools at an aver- age cost of about 20 cents a day al T MUSIC AND DRAMA e had discovered. “And this one, ton” | clated, and Mre. Lawsonm said anotiver of the group. “Why, they |toruot her cbagrin as -':.m THE DONATION PARTY - f have all been tried,” added another | Drajses bestowsd upon tootheors 5 M. Bothern and Julla Margowe Citce, wiite S, Tewwon 1ooked biini - | cookies and doughnute sbe had have determined to add King Lear to 1At the e o melonm At tha same | Tided. Bumimie found himeslf torgd eir o re 2 N . ) el ' sty BMPIRRY. NOSS SORn (Written Bpoclally for The Pulletin.) ciught at the lines with both hands. | Ume Sammie, at his grandfather's e e i s i The mew circus at the New York | Now In the time of surprise and do- | |/Nfortunately. he seized only one rein, | bow, Pibed up cherrfiy, “Ves, § dfd w1 elfeC, 0 Hippodvome haw made eveo & EPORLor | natton paetles. arsd Sosvits & s |40 the 0ld_Doliie turned sharply 15| {0 help grandpa. He did not ave i AN TDLER, it than was anticipated by the mun- | Dooon parties, and despite the ridicule | ;e joft, nearly upseiting the carriage. [ They @re off sood onds, I kuow. pritA% o At : | heaped upon then, they are usually | Mr, 1y rebuked the boy, | Eharply bis grandfather turned to the The Old G, e 4 | attended with good cheer and frindly | but his wite aid more than whis. 8he | Hoy, und for the first time strick him | " Miss Gertriude Renmyson, an Ameri- | teeling, Let me toll you of ome that|CAUSDY the boy by ome arm and shook s Dblow which sent bims reeling off.| The scheme of the Buw Brothers, cun dramatic soprano, has been en ting you of ome vhat | P 00 Y, Ciing ni cars round- | “T1 teah you to meddle after”this, | one of tie companies in the tolle, wii T e T e emonts | 100K place not many mfles away 1y 8 Ahe marme time, 5% $he exclaimed, | now yon mind.” What eise he mighi| the simple one of organising snd in- Concerts of Beiast, freland. “You'll be sure to come to the dona- | “What ahou? Haven't you nhave sald wag lost in the roar of | corporating i sorts of enterprisc:, " g ifast, Ireland. I‘“ o7 Aard | Beon or to touch e lines sughter from the men s2nding largely mining, with a tigh capitalis orustiiity of Miss Blanche Bates son™ wia ho groetfny that 1eas [ Why don't vinu mind? You nearly had | around. Sammie, poor boy, crept vack | tion, and welling stock ® the conf b Balaaso o Gatts 100 Going &l colved 8¢ 1he TR oot atier o us in th Now mind what you | to the doorstop of the house, fecling|ing puhblic. Thoss who bought ti . S Basls Sore Ont. Ph ACery | IaE 4 o are told.” and h another shak | that donations were 5 suare and a de- | glock retain it. Its only value in mowt o'n Nohe j, ¢ "w:«’;‘v o o m) W, 1 try to come” veplied Mrs, | Bettled the boy in the seat from wi lusion. Here some kind fricnds found | cases i# for souvenirs and wall paper fou, How X PL" y'e o il PO LR A M: :",; ' lr"m the | he Pad siidden during his escapad nim sobbing as if e heart would | The manipulators have the mone i, Now York. Lt e O v i | wanted to heip grandps,” blubbered | break, and they tried to comfort him | That is the fashionabie arramgemer: Relsearmals o S Tow Mo Bong, | il 300 X e A Taat | the boy, “Jabez said he wamn't strong | by #aying, “Never mind, Bammis, it | Judging from the fact that so man, SRS T m for The Boss, ' bill. Mr. Lewson hates to go ou to hold the “grent,” | will all come #ght. Don't mind. 1| mpllions have changed hands on ! the ne ward :ahl-lrh: au- evenings; but il . i ged 4 wouldn’'t if | were you.” *“That's what basis of promises for cash it is a poD~ nw I' h Hothrook «||| ey ’!‘1’::» s ;lit":‘x::r:l?:':. SEien. SROUY nt your help, i det you | they foie o1 l};‘; ':n:m';:; i L e n 1 [othrook L wi he @ canng 3 e 5" the Lecause an’ A — wented by William “Yes, 40, iimed In a third volce, | s ? A P s ‘ % , i s A 0 g you came, chd e the mnrr'm-mt in xn« housge It was about 1720, at Amsterda: my Valentine, has finished » vaudeville od as yourer o in the Kitchen, “my mouth is all maAe per w i thoush Ui cresin-ciks | momeier, which has served as a mode! wketch catled Thre for Frank Well, we'll » was the wesponse. | BP for @ plece of > E9EN Ieokiiy: 1S SNEORS YN TULVE ! vy MoRe Deshon. The chara re a burglar, “Of covrse, I'll bring the cream-cako “"' f',", S e atad e sons | and an embezzie §t_you want it, though m.ine are no |pios lAwEon, @u dhe enor %) - — better than anybody else’s as 1 can |} b earhod e To Art#tophanes’ farce, The Birds, i to |gee. Tl _bave 0 bring Sammie, I|PA0 #he reasched the He¥h Boweret | revived in the sprimg by Willlam A. | suppose,” she added with u & $0 W e oy o e o DO Y lh P i ‘s Chicago company, presenting Loy is the worst 1 ever sa Beod With. digney o the pers | ou ve ains ret Mayo's modern farce, Eairy my Whusband’s grandson. Something FO8€C, ¥ o= et 2 % 4 Mine, always re he i AT oried By Ftece Your liver is torpid and congested. Schenck’s Wi N i Toriiance i s e e hered round her. They soon saw Mandrake Pills afford great relief. One fair nard in Ife Came from Mijwa ty wis th ; et L Mot s Sene trial will convince you of their curative proper- ba ceiehrate ,w’.:'rll-’:v '\.A';:,..,');’l,'r” :\; : et ::‘ p any. Femi hied ll,«', ties for stomach, liver and bilicus disorders. 4 wement will alstrib; well take womething frn,n[\ O T Wholly vegetable and absclutely harmless, a 1le am ab t ow E s H : s aion o e do, Measiais *| coverea th Plain or sugar ccated, 25c 2 box. Sold every- on or two. o, v A pyies red £ YOI S 58 piied i Ll XosonsesJ 3 tearn where. Send postal for our free medical book as a plano I8 is the in onr . beat E . of James L. Warner of Ris- |are just : and learn to prescribe for yourself, rk, N. J. Man wentors are Ap: ammie, iy a4 e pe aid to have miriven for what Warner | can vou tell wihen melons are prir x ",‘.3‘"~H?§C)Z"Zn¥ P52 5 SRR & SOW, P, P | alone has achieved. Tt iz bullt Iike “Weil,” langhed th & okl ;. “iie best o g P il n upright plano. The keys and the way | know is to cut out a wedge and e ling board nre the same as the eat it mine are all pretty good parlor instrument. The violin effect | now, I guéss.” 1 oduced by a serfes of flexible r On Wednesday, Sammie fe or % one for each string and op- | sponss i Kot erated bard, which i8 set in mo- | gifte out of tion & o | cream-cake group of men The New York Review say Walter H “two, side by »ox on th Damroseh has completed all arrange- w0 ments for the dramatic stage perform L nee with scenery and costumes of erne’s exquisite medieval mystery The ( n of Bethlehem, I be glven hall, 1 ork, on Dec. 17 This work I'd better cut 58 been given here in its original con- one and mee If it W rt wert f nd §t was Mr Damrosch's ly he took out his > % ! ih 14l century scenery and | whicd tumes. puttin ating off THE HOUSEHOLD, Bulletin Building 74 Franklin Street Sleighs Sleighs We have a iull i-e of Sleighs cn hani ready for g5 5 7 ed ont 3 a5 tar as! Wih HicNg o wiazo. “ine! immed at: delivery, inc udin- Portland Cutters, Business ; ach for B ; sction : Sl hs and som. Sp . 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