Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — The Canada Thistle. [ARTICLE]

The Canada Thistle.

IVe often allude to thistle vilest pest the farmer has to contend against when it is allowed to get a foothold. We say allowed; because it cannot get a.foothold where a farm is free of it except it has permission to do so from the occupier of the land. It usually visits him in purchased seeds, or it may steal over his lines from the lands of a careless neighbor; but in either event it is easy to dispatch it if taken in time, and the former who neglects to take it in time and destroy root and branch, is disqualified to be the tiller of •the soil, and besides commits an offence against the law, and the community which the law is intended to protect. Where only a few thistles make' their ►appearance, as they commonly do in patches, they should be totally removed, not a piece of root the size of a finger-nail should be left r,y it will produce a sjioot.

.WbUJi-UtfiX Widtluily appear in huge numbers they should be cal off close to. the grqand|*nsjEßt before# rgiiLttmhuK lows In the stocks should be filled with common salt. One doae this wsy is enough. But should they exist in still Larger numbers, cutting down with a scythe as fast as they appear, and frequent rnllivation of the ground wiU exterminate them.— German town Telegraph.