Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — Destroying Weeds. [ARTICLE]

Destroying Weeds.

July and August are probably the best months in the year for destroying weeds. The summer heats are at their fiercest ana all annual weeds cut down at the root speedily wither and die. The tougher perennials have made their growth for the season and have nearly perfected their seed. The root then has least vitality, and if the top be cut off a feebler effort is made to produce it, especially if the weeds grow in a tough sod of grass. We have known frequent mowings of thistles in sod to reduce the vitality of the patch so much that it would produce only here and there a stalk, until the field was again plowed. In the growing corn August is, of ajl months, the time to destroy Canada thistles and quack. Keep the plant down as much as possible early in the season, then, as the corn begins to tassel out, gothrough with a light hoe and cut out every spear of thistle and pull up every blade of quack with all the ropt that can be got attached. The quack should be put in heaps and burned, but the thistle roots will seldom if ever start again, and pulling up at this season qf tire -year, or even cutting off, is final and certain desfruction. The cost of doiag this is not large, varying with price, of labor and abundance of weeds; but we ase 1 satisfied that it is always a profitable Operation on all land’ foul with thistles. We repeatedfy had the cost more, than repaid not in the com crop but in the succeeding oats and barley, besides leaving’ the land cleaner for years thereafter,—Rural New Yorker. ■' - : ->1 '