Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Reproductive Power of Weeds. [ARTICLE]

Reproductive Power of Weeds.

Farmers who allow the weeds on their plantations to go to seed have little idea, many of them, of tho labor and trouble they are storing up for themselves. Some curious experimentalist has been at the tronble of counting the seeds produced by a single plant of some of the commonest varieties of woods, with the following rather startling results; Wild carrot, 1200; dandelion, 1500; chickweed, 2000; cockle, 3200; campsion, 342 1; chess, 3500; dock, 3700; ragweed, 4372; grondsel, 6500; ox-eye daisy, 9600; mallow, 16,500; motherwort, 18,000; foxtail, 19,500; sow thistle, 19,000; mustard, 31,000; Canadian thistle, 42,000; red poppy, 50,000; burdock, 400,328; purslane, 500,000; lambs’ quarters, 825,000 —[New Orleans Picayune.