Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-16
AGRICULTURAL.
Look For Foul Seeds in Grain-Ciande'ed
Horsss-How the Disease ia Spread.


This year will lorg &c remembered II
Southern Ohio IS the ragweed year. they
have come up through the heaviest blue
crsss sod, on LANDS where | never saw them
before snd even the Gersest growth o!
clovcr was not able 10 smother IN, N out
entirely. On wheat fields, where there
was no clover sown, or where there was q
moor catch. the growth Of this weed Is
enormous.
| received Two quarts Of wheat from the
Depar;ment q: Washington q short tune
since, and picked out teaspooEtCl ct
cookie and weed seed of several yanellea
which | could not name. 4 good :GnnlaE
mill would have taken them all out, aud !,
certainly would have been better not to seld
the wheat than 10 send foul sesd with It.
Ten years ago last spring l got from 8
Cincinnati seedsman enough beans 10
nlant half an acre. When they came up
We found in every few feet OF drill little
bIro morning glory, which gave US more
- e,Io ,b.r oEv other weed; but We fought
:. 80 y;,o-onsIy and thought we had succeed
ed in DISCRIMINATING it, but the next yeAI
more rev. At the end OF seven ears l
announced that had conquered IT, but TIE
ninth wear it resppearsd again, ana men
avsnined II more close.y than ever os!oE''
and found that it would come up ioug
aftsr The corn or potatoes we're lad 81, aGG
g !, orsw oply four inches high would
noka y ssw balls of seed. lt Will gro"
pnder the foliage CT other plants where !.
cannot be seen ualr5s one happens 10 pos
i in the morning when IN bloom ana
before any one ia aware OF its presence th7
oead "a matured. | last year went over ne
sDot on which It grew, repeatedly and
nnIIod nm every plaut and carried 10 q
straw nile, which | atterwatd 5Grhea
Again / thought was I'D Of r. bat some
Tine later l found TWO or three square roo
covered with it in piece OF s"sSt corn
and although but few weeks o!G IL va.
so-n;rg iced sbundantly. HAD EGo"c
81 -. Essence in the beans, hive minutes
~orL Would have removed It; aad l can
scarceIv estimate tbs csmase II e-'
hen 10 me. and an afraid TO pfediet ma
| | shall ever get rid or It.
I'm Name the ssedsman for this, but
IT bova oniy myself to blame tcc enoi1aeI
,;aarce which | have been hRhuns IoE
aSo~t years, and that i3 the Jerusalem!
49, Dlsated d bu3hsl Of them II
r,cb bigck soil, end dog than as clean
az I could, and the ne! Ee-' P!2n'
81 the piece in pumpkins. ny gGI'
6ohting I managed 10 EeeP me.
4ovn syd perauaded mysa!f that no tuoa'
SoJ formed and yhet Was EoT clear c
10, %H The next year the ned %l2 IN c.sn
- he s-Gghokes almost az thIckas ever
Snt Aid not allow one 70 gro" more ma
g., b;rb. aud laid it Dg perfectly lie
a ~ ,b - The rsxt yeaS i was n "he&'
and now telt sure ,ast ''!O'l Nc. 90 =
more of TEEN; that vas iy,,r 'e-1s a. ~
and the Geld has had corr, pa eos .,
heat aimee. end sill the arl2GoS3' go"
,bonSb NOR sparingly, aHl an Deg Il
ning 10 hone that mny live 10 see tue"
extirpated. 5;sDrto tbs
seed will lie in the grounc Tor ye'f' S. nc ,Ue'
come p. Scme twelve years ago l p'.'g'o :
two hills of martynia II my gSTueui "i u :
wo Ala not relish them as plc6ies, AUG"
I'D them to 20 10 seed. The next year Ia" S
sa,a the most trolblelome weed IN u
asTJan and as had learrva their chhr"'
ssr did not allou ore Of tksn C gro
large enough to I.Ossom even. ! lIu5 ~
hem for ten years be:2re 'Ae 'As' u -
seed grew. l., rc, ,,s, "ou
"" "aa5;Tg mskes seyea years wes'
inc, most farmers seem utterly ind i Ter e.
a aS09s GARDEN sPi ' 70 maturs seed sDopg soa
cover cove forty-eight acre field the next : Yea
81 oU, q vbsst feld that the moving machl3
OK I'D q S 90 over in day, to become heaVil
.n 49, We do not study the haslts {
wssJ SI, a. we ought; If We did, we should
. able to manage them better.