CULTIVATION OVERDONE.
Weeds are only an effort of the soil towards self-protection. Bareness favours packing, burning, and mechanical deterioration of the soil, and the escape of nitrogenous plant-food by drainage and evaporation. A weed crop has the effects of a mulch ; keeps the soil open and mellow, and holds and stores the fugitive nitrogen. Ground not otherwise occupied, therefore, can hardly be given better treat:wnt tbun by J°^™^fcf it in weeds, provic^CT, h^^^^^j^J^^J^ij^^^ long as weeds ar^fcrturinlfiss, colmnuea cultivation of groqji not intended for immediate planting" merely for the sake of weed-destruction, is not to bo commended. Everything has its time, cultivation as wall as as weed-growth. And then a heavy growth of weeds plou bed under, although not as good perhaps as a coat of good manure, is at least a substitute for ie sufficiently important to deserve consideration. — T Greiner, Monmouth Co. ,
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Northern Advocate, 5 October 1889, Page 3
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