A Thousand Weeds At One Pull

A cingle weed (Chmapohitm album) ' if Isft midiMurbed, will npou iiiore tlum 10,000 seeds, ëach capable of producing a successor. The eeeds ol the dock, sometimos mimber over 13,000 oh a singlo plant, aud thu tond tlax {Linar a vvigaris leavcs provisión foriporethan 45,U00 plañís tho followingyear. Burdock will muliiply 21,0GU l'uld, and t lio c 1:1111101) gtinging neutle {L'rtma dioica) ripens 1 üüjÖüO soeds. Scuruely u weed OOinéá lo iniiturity without souUering from 1,000 to 10,1)00 oi' more seeda, tu injure orops and aiiDoy the cultivator. 1'íii is nut mero guoss work, for pains tukíug iuyosligatun liavo actually ouuut od :ud ealcolaied tho increose. A tiinglo pull ut thu coinmenceinent ol tlie feiison, will destroy tlie whcleprogeny. It should be rwnembored tlmt seeds muturo sulficienlly to vegotate beiore thcv are perlectly dvy; and again, that the seed are ripeon onepart of a plant Título therc aro flowers un anóther - Henee it is not safo to wait till tlie tlowers are gone, btrfore palling op weeds. Alti'ck tbein betore they blossom. Pull tliem u), or, if aoftuuU, cut them ofi' wiien (,uile green, and spread tliei in tho eun to die. lio who allows tho weeds to grow in his potato field until b harvetits the erop, is quite sute to eow many millions of seeds íor next ' ycur's trouble. This much for nnnual and bienniul weecis. Perennialiijlikè the dock, duisy and tli;stk',shoiild be tfeated with greater vigor. Cu ting off the to pnce will not s'.iflke. Digging them up une by mie, root and branch, is tlie only ellectnal reinedy. Wbere they have invaded a wfiole fiel el, plow up ;he land in the Pat), loa ving many ol the roots exposed to the action of tho Winter s frost. Plow Bgüin in the Sprint?, taking pains to picik out and carry oll every root that apfXMM. Devoto the soil lo Kome nood crup, and let it be ropeatedly and tf.oroughly cultivatod through the Summer,waging war upon the pests without relenting. If they are cut ott lelow ground soveral timesin theSummer, they will grow weakerat every derapitalion. The leaves beicg the hing?! of plante, aro essential to their breahiiiLT, and if this important operation be stopped, they must soon give up the ghost. Kemomber, every extermina ion of a weed this year, is tho death of a Hifl)igoa Jlrps.