Two Ways With Weeds.
Cultivators who have tried both ways .know the several advantages of destroying weeds just as they are coming up to the surface.;. The ground is then rendered mellow and clean with* a tenth part of the labor required to destroy large weeds. The crop has not then been re tarded in growth nearly to its entire failure. The estimate is made that weeds after rng a fortnight and becoming a foot contain by cubic measure 1,000 tbMS as much substance in growth or acme than when first making their ap-
CLKAJf CULTUKE JIND NKGLKOT. ptaranceat the surface, and with this gnat difference it is easily understood why they retard or destroy growth. The Country Gentleman takes as an illustra^ tionof the foregoing the turnip crop. If the weeds are not allowed entrance, the turnips will appear like those in Fig. 1. If the weeds are rampant, the turnips will make no head way and will resemble those in Fig. 2. Late in summer is the season when so many weeds steal a large growth.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3067, 12 January 1894, Page 7
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178Two Ways With Weeds. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3067, 12 January 1894, Page 7
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