Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — Russian Thistle “Hoeing Bees.” [ARTICLE]

Russian Thistle “Hoeing Bees.”

Western farmers find that individual attempts at fighting the Russian thistle avail nothing because tiie plague grows again faster than the individual farmer can find time to hoe it down; so they all unite as often as convenient to have “hoeing bees” in designated localities. The details of operations are settled by the town councils, every one in the neighborhood takes a day ■jff to fight thistles, and in this way it is possible to make at least some stand against the persevering plague, and to keep some sections fairly free for other than thistle crops.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. China, to pay off the indemnity, will have to pay to Japan money at the average rate of more than $65 a minute, day and night, during the next five years.