A Weed That Is Causing Complaint

Tbe orange hawkweed bas caused serious annoyance in some sections this season. A writerin TheNMional Stockman and Farmer, ia wbieb this hawkweed is illustrated, says it is another example of a weedy plant introduced from Europe. Although the date of its appearance in American soil is recent it Las spread over a larga part of the country. It belongs to tbe great family of composite plants, thus being related to tbe white daisy dandelion and ly Jettuce. It has a dozen or more medium sized orange colored flowers borne on the top of a stiff stem a foot or more in height. Neariy all the leaves are in a rosetto at the base of the flower stalk. The leaves are about four inches long, of a linear oblong form and are covered with many fine hairs. The plant lives from year to year by means of its root stocks and rtmners, spreading from a single plant in all directions. The orange hawkweed is most likely to appear in pastures or meadow lands, from which it should be pulled up or otherwise destroyed as soon as noticed.