The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-11-17

agricultural and one need not go out
side the state te find one.
About nine miles south of Spooner
on the Omaha railroad is located
German colony, calling themselves the
Christian Social association. They
have bought about 1000 acres of land
and there are now eight families on the
land, with twelve more to join them
In the spring. They are building dwell
ing houses and barns. The colony al
ready has COWS and horses on the
premises. with 100 head more to fol
low in the spring. The new depot is
called COnora. These people are from
Eorthern Germany, and they are hard
working, thrifty people. They contem-
plate stock-raising and dairying and
will build a creamery.
Something About Noxious Weeds.
College boys cut up many FRANKS.
but the agricultural students are no
bother. They are only with us during
serious purpose.
Much hard work is done in this de-
partment The bulletins issued from
time to time are of great value. They
are to an extent technical and only a
formation from them; but the care and
skill shown in the compilation of the
matter in these pamphlets is obvious
to even a casual reader.
l was looking over the other day q
recent bulletin (No. 76) on the noXious
weeds of the state and realized that
with the farmer, as with us all, life is
a warfare There are illustrated dis
cusSionS of eighteen pernicious weeds,
pests that have come over the line from
Canada or drifted in with the seed
bearing winds from the plains of the
west; or perhaps been brought in bed
ding on stock cars. Some of these
weeds seem to be degenerates of great
bleSSingS-Wild mustard, wild parSnip,
wild carrot, chicory, and prickly let
tuce. And the horse nettle is bOtani-
cally related to the potato, and it's
flowers resemble those of the potato
in their form and cOlors. They are
followed by small, yellow fruits which
are also suggestive of potato fruits.
But the plant is not eaten by any kind
of farm stock.
Of the ox-eyed daisy, with which
maidens ertWine their hair, Professor
Golf writes:
''It seems almost pity that we are
compelled to condemn this attractive
plant as perniclous weed. But such
is the case. Where tolerated it often
intrudes itself into pastures and mead
ow lands to so great an extent as to
crowd out more useful plants.
"The ox-eye daisy has sometimes
been cultivated in the flower garden.
1t is a near relative to the garden
chrySanthemum, and with the care
that has been bestowed upon the lat
!! ter might possibly have equaled it in
attractiveneSs. 1t has also been in
PRODUCED in some localities as forage
plant for sheep"
Must Turn the Sod to Kill Them.
Professor Golf takes each weed and
tells how to destroy it. OF the daisy,
''It is hardly practicable to eXterminate
the Ox-eye daisy from grass land in
which it has secured a hold without
breaking up the sod and summerfal-'
lowing the ground, or devOting it for
a time to some hoed crop. Cutting
the stems before the flowers open will
prevent the seeding, but does not de-
strOy the plant nor stop the spreading
of it's rOOtStOckS.'
The prevalence of weeds is marvel
Gus to those who notice nothing under
foot Professor Golf while walking
the distance of a few blocks in a
suburb of Milwaukee saw but one of
the weeds condemned in the weed law
in a seeding condition.
For the first time, too, we learn the
defense for using a foreign language
in discussing things scientific. The
botanical name, being printed in Latin,
is the same in all languages, whereas
the common name alone would mean
nothing definite outside of our own
country, and is liable to cause con-
fusion even in different localities with
in the same county.
Not All Weeds Are Fixtures.
Weeds are readily divisible into
three classes, viz: annual, those that
live but one season; biennial, those
that live only two seasons; and peren-
NAL, those that live an indefinite num-
Der of seasons. The way to suppress
the first two classes, therefore, is to
cut them before their seeds come to
ripeness.
The weed nuisance is no new thing.
In 1916 Mr.. Ambrose Stevens of New
York presented an essay before the
Agricultural society of that state on
''The Extirpation of the Canada
Thistle" Ellis discussion is authority
TO this day.
Cutting down, blowing under and
the application Of chemicals are not
the only ways of getting rid of weeds
Corn, potatoes, beets, or any cultivated
crop, well taken care of, will in two
years rid the land of not only Russian
thistles, but nearly all other weeds.
Sheep are very fond of the Russian
thistle until it becomes too coarse and
woody. By pasturing sheep on the
young plants they may be kept down.
ORLANDO BURNETT.
A Bachelors Theory.
"Now what" said the happy young