CLEANING LAND.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 647, 9 July 1892, Page 5

CLEANING LAND.

The cleaning of land before putting it under orop of any description is a matter of great impoxtance, but in the laying down of the land to grass, careful weeding hsis a very special significance. It is difficulffo eradicito certain kinds of spurious plants, even when the utmost caro in given to preparing the land, but because of this very fact, tho work of preparation is ell the more necessary. Unless duo attention is paid to the importance of cleaning while the land is disengaged, unlimited expense, and frequently partial failure of cultivation, are entailed. And further, the effect produced upon animate by the consumption of dirt is often vtry serious. It may be argued thi'.t the soil is not always responsible for the evils it produces. That may be. It is just as necessary that the seed should be sound and cleau, as it it is that tho soil should be freed from wends. ■ The probability is that., until a comparatively reeout p tin\e,tao distribution of imperfectly grown or cleaned seeds was accountable for tha spread of certain of tho common orders of weods. Of recent yoarn, however, a marked improvement has been visible in the quality of grass needs supplied to the fanners, both ns regards purity and gatroinathig power. This remirk, of course, may be coiißtrued as reflecting crpilit hoth upon the farmer and tho flecdamai). The sei'd must have grown from the soil, which must be well cleaved by tho farmer : ami on the other hand, tho seedsman of to-day would Riwm to epivrn no ' ai is to ensure immunity from adulteration, aud tho tiduiixture of spniiou? seed?.