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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-31

have taken a lot of muscle to keep the
market from going to pieces. Unless help
comes in the morning from Liverpool
cables wheat will sell lower. The only ar
eument in favor of buying wheat at pres
ent is the fact that it has had hard
break and as a rule people who buy
things Just because they are cheap gen.
orally get a. bad bargain.
CORN-Corn held firm. Each and every
decline is met with good buying orders,
and the market advances rapidly. Cash
demand is excellent The worst is yet to
owing to the fact that there is an ex-
cellent demand and that there will be a
lot of crop damage later on, In all prob
ability. we believe corn should be bought
breaks.
OATS-Oats were inclined to weakness.
PROVISTONS-Prices were steady at the
yards and only 1000 hogs against esti
mates of 1900. Packers were the best
buyers again today, picking up Septem-
Der pork on soft spots. We feel friendly
to pork and believe it is scoring for
good advance. j. c. GOlNGS.
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Chicago livestock Market.

Chicago, July 31.-CATTLE-Receip
$500, including 800 Texans; steers gen
orally STEADY choice firm; butchers, stock Ss
poor to medium, S4.5005.15; stocizers and
feeders. steady to strong, $1,000. rs; cows.
02-90; bulls, steady, 81. 75d4. 60; calves, Csc
lower. $5.50@6.65; Texas fed steers, steady,
$4.40GI5. 40; Texas grass steers, 50. 1904 Is;
Texas bulls, g. SOFAS. 40
HOGS--Receipts today, 5000; tomorrow,
shade easier: top. $5.S716. Mixed and
butchers, s. 10q5.371 good to choice
heavy, $510d5.35: rough heavy, &.95n5. 05:
light, $4.10q5.35; bulk of sales, $5.121zQ
$50.
SHEEP-Receipts, 10000; sheep and
lambs steady, firm for choice; common
lambs easier. Good to choice wethers,
s4.15G4. so; fair to choice mixed, $3.25Q4. 10;
western sheep. $400d4.40; Texas sheep,
$3.000l4-00; native lambs, $4.50Q6.00; west
lambs, $5.0006.00
Official yesterday: ReceiptS-Cattle, 20,-
594; hogs, 81, 054; sheep, 1929. Shipments
Cattle. 6.164; hogs. 1887: sheep. 40.
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woodcock in the Himalayas.

From the London Field
In the open, the Himalayan Woodcock is
easy enough to shoot; but get him in
pine wood or oak and rhododendron for
est, or on an uneven hillside, where the
conf1guration of the ridge gives him an
opportunity to exhibit his powers, and he
gunner ever blamed himself for missing
/ shooting the best covert in Kangra
the wooded cliff by the Byjnath river.
northern veranda of the Byjnath Oak
bungalow. It is a triangular-shaped jun
cliff or hillside with a narrow wooded
fiat, planted with tea, between its base
quagmire on a slant, springs of water
oozing out at hundred places, and tall
is thickly clothed; full of monkeys, too,
by way of local coloring and a Hindu
an Oriental touch. This is the one wood
cock haunt in kangra unlike all the 9TH
ten to twenty cock. The triangle points
uphill and ends abruptly in a precipitous
promontory oyerhanging a higher reach
cock must break back, for the country
ahead is absolutely coverless and com
posed of terraced rice-fields. Beginning
at the base of the triangle and beating
Up to it's apex, the gunner walks along
the tea-planted fiat at the bottom edge
and gets beautiful snap shots as the cock
snick out of and dodge into the jungle
again. Sometimes they break back over
the beaters' heads without giving you
sight of them; but the generality are
flights until they reach the precipitous
point, and then you reckon to bag them:
One day I was following up a fine old
cock, and had missed him twice. which
evidently put him his mettle- As the
line approached the apex 1 ran forward
and took up my last station at a spot
where 1 confidently assumed, from pre-
vious experience, he must break back just
over my head. The bird was flushed and
turned, but sooner did he mark
than with one twist he dived into the
bare river-bed below, whence by con-
siderable circuit he could return to the
wood. AS four other cock were reported
to have broken back over the beaters'
again, and trudging back with my squad
of a dozen welI-trained coolies, lined up
once more. True enough, the bird again
rose-a particularly heavy, dark, richly
colored one, and easily recognized-and
sl1ilfully evading all my positions worked
his way forward to the apex again.
AS we neared it my choler was raised
terrnined to be even with him. Ordering
the heaters to halt, scrambled down
into the river bed, sixty feet below, abb
solutely certain the cock would repeat his
old manoeuvre The beat was resumed,
and balanced myself on a very slippery
and insecure but sufficiently hidden river
boulder to drop my friend when he adj
it? Not a bit of it. He flushed out of
the cover at the same place, spotted my
new design, lowered over me at such an
awkward angle could not bring my gun
to bear and then deliberately turned and
flew back over the very place had in the
first beat selected as the best position,
and which was out of range now. If ever
tactics accordingly, it was that willy wood
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WILDE IS HURT.
Asks Correction of Criticism Regard
ing Crew of the Oregon.

Washington, July 31.-The navy de-
partment today received the following
cable from Captain Wilde, of the Ore
gon, which is in dry dock at Kure under
going temporary repairs:
Kure, July 31.-Secretary Navy, Wash
ington:-Please correct press statements
of inefficient officers on Oregon. No ship
has more efficient officers. (Signed)
WILDE
The dispatch from Captain Wilde
came a surprise to the department as
there had been no disposition here to
criticise either him or his officers for the
mishap to the great battleship. The chief
of the bureau of navigation states to
the department that Wilde has aboard
the Oregon an unusually competent and
efficient complement of officers and
pleasure was taken in giving Captain
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BATTLE IN THE DARK
Between Bank Burglars and a
Party of Citizens.

Champaign, ILL.,, July 31.-The safe of
the bank of Armstrong, Ill, a village a
few miles from here was blown open
with dynamite by burglars last night
and the entire building was wrecked
The explosion aroused the villagers,
who fastened to the scene with weap-
ons and a pitched battle ensued with
the burglars, who were still in the
ruins The robbers finally escaped in
the darkness. A posse was Immediate
ly organized and started in pursuit
with blood hounds. One of the robbers
was evidently wounded. for a stream of
blood was found in the road. 1t is be-
lieved the men had wagon in waiting
on the outskirts of the town and used
it in getting away.
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OBJECT AUDITORIUM
Musical People Don't Want Bal
cOny Over the Stage.

The musical people are the first ones to
make a complaint concerning the new
auditorium They object to the balcony
over the stage on account of it's detri-
ment to the acoustics and because the
balcony prevents the erection of Tempo
rary seats for a large chorus. They have
filed their complaint with the city council.
and it will be considered at the next meet
ing, which will be August 6. They may
be correct in their charges, except the
statement that people occupying the bal
cony can not see the speaker, which Is
incorrect. Their petition to the council
will be as follows:
Topeka, Kas.. July 80. 1900
Gentlemen: Whereas, in the construc-
ton of the new auditorium the plans con-
template the placing of balcony sixteen
feet wide Immediately above and over
hanging the platform or stage, and dis
tant from it only nine feet and covering
almost the entire platform; and
Whereas there are only raised seats on
the platform for eighty-two people and
be impossible to erect temporary seating
capacity for a large chorus; and
Whereas, on account of the fact that per-
sons occupying seats on the balcony
ing upon the platform, and hence they
viii be unoccupied until every other seat
In the house is taken; and
Whereas, while there will be a small
loss of seating. capacity of the house by
leaving out this balcony, it will only be
the loss of the poorest seats. a consider
able saving can be effected by so doing;
DeS10eS, Two more rows OF seats can easily
be placed on the platform itself and so
cutting down the actual loss of capacity
and
Further, in making preparation for the
various entertainments to be given dur
ing the opening week for the benefit of
the seating fund it is found that it will
be necessary to erect temporary seating
capacity to accommodate them on the
platform; and
Further, it has been the intention of the
various musical organizations in the city
for several years, that when the long
looked-for auditorium should be COM
pleted, to organize a permanent annual
musical festival that would last week,
and be the direct means of bringing thou
sands of people to the city. If this ball
cony is put in as provided by the plans
it will be the means of the abandonment
of any movement in that direction, for
the reason that such an organization will
require seating capacity in proper form
for a chorus of at least 500 people, which
cannot be done under the present arrange
ment; besides, a balcony in that place will
be very detrimental to the acoustics of
the house.
Therefore, we. the musical people of the
city, respectfully ask you to give this
matter your serious attention, and take
necessary steps to have the balcony left
out.
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ANARCHISTS DENY IT.
Say There Was No Plot, But Hum
bert's Record Was Bad.

New York, July 31-Micola Gigliotti.
r. DeRosalia and P. Pascale are known
to the Italians of the United States as
the -'triumvirate.'' They are really the
executive committee of the Italian Re
publican Confederation of this coun-
the following statement concerning the
murder of King Humbert:
I'm the name of the italian Republican
Federation of the United States, af-
firm most emphatically that there has
been no plot in this country to kill King
Humbert. We deplore the killing, but
we question very much the goodness of
labor has been a bad one. Many Ital-
ian laborers and lovers of liberty were
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DEFENSE CLOSES.
Much Speculation Regarding Verdict
in Jester Case.

ST. Louis, Mo-, July S1.-A special to
the Post-Dispatch from New London, No,
says:
P. H. Cullen. of Mexico. Mo-, chief coun-
sci for Alexander Jester. being tried for
closing arguments for the defense today
He reviewed the evidence in detail, and In
stand in his own defense, referred to the
silence of Christ when arraigned before
PLATE
w. o. Forest for the prosecution. will
close the arguments tomorrow. and the
case will then be given to the jury
The verdict is awaited with intense in
terest, and there is much speculation as
to what it will be Some are confident
that the jury will disagree; others that 1t
will acquit, while still others think Jester
will be convicted
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LESS THAN 1000.
Reported Surrender of BOer
Army DWindling Away.

London. July 31.-A dispatch received
at the war office today from Lord Rob
erts materially modified yesterdays
statement of the surrender of 5000
rebels under General Prinsloo. It now
appears that Generals PrinsIoo Villiers
and Crowther surrendered with $50 men.
1872 horses, 955 rifles and a Krupp nine
FOUNDER.
Some of the leaders in more distant
parts of the hills hesitate to come in on
the plea that they are Independent of
General PrinSlOO. Lord Roberts adds
that he has directed General Hunter to
resume hostilitieS forthwith and to listen
to no EXCUSES.
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LUMBER FAILURE.
T. M. Richardson & Son, of Houston,
Make an Assignment.

Oklahoma City. Q. T. July s1.-The
son & Son, of this place, with headquart-
ers at Houston. Tex, has made an as
signment for the benefit of their credit
ors. The liabilities will reach S240, 900. The
assets are unknown The firm has filed
son Lumber company is a corporation
which has done an immense business in
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Indian Territory
and Texas under the name of the Rich
ardson & Son Lumber company, Richard
son Lumber company and Wilburton Lum-
Der company. They operated sawmills at
various places throughout these states,
and their failure will, it is said, involve
many business men.
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District % Wins

The case of the school board of To-
peka VS. school district % which was
heard last week by Judge Hazen re-
suited in a judgment against the school
board of the city of Topeka of So. 500
and interest, amounting to over &c.
600. and a judgment against the district
of 81 500 and interest, amounting to 81
500. This is really a victory for the dis
trict as they offered to settle for SO, 500
before the suit was brought
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than any one else to bring about the
removal of manufacturers. They used
dynamite and although their efforts to
destroy factory buildings were frus-
trated, they created such a feeling oil
uneasiness that the manufacturers
withdrew
When the empress of Austria was
murdered the local anarchists had big
celebration but not openly. When the
and assembled at a prearranged point
where they held their jolIifcation, and
when it was over returned to Paterson
As they had gone singly and at inter-
walls, they avoided general notice.
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New York Money Market.

New York, July 1-MONEY-Money on
call nominally at II per cent; prime mer-
camille paper 4GA per cent; sterling ex-
change steady with actual business in
bankers bills at $4.S711 for demand and at
S4S3azGB for 60 days; posted rates, S4.S412Q
4.S5 and $4.SS-2; commercial bills, $4-S3ss-
SUBMISSIVE certificates, 6ll4n62Ac;
bar silver, 61Ac: Mexican dollars. 481sc-
BONDS-Governmen bonds steady U.
s. refunding' Is when issued. registered,
1041z; coupon, 1919; Is, registered. 100; IS.
registered, 1092z coupon, 11Oiz; new As, reg
istered, 1925; coupon, 1895; old As, reg
istered, 115S4; coupon, 115z4; 5s, registered.
1131z; coupon, 1144-
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Market Gossip.

Receipts last year: Duluth. 123 cars;
Minneapolis, 173 cars.
800.
Very little done in the market, but they
say prospects steady for both hogs and
cattle in Kansas City.
Chicago receipts: Wheat, 351 cars; corn,
612 cars; oats, AIS cars.
Kansas City: Hogs and cattle steady.
Liverpool: Wheat, 1sd higher; corn
unchanged to I'D lower.
Northwest receipts: Minneapolis, 24o
cars; Duluth, 81 cars.
Bradstreet's worlds visible: Wheat in
creased $4,000 corn decreased 1,452, 00O
oats decreased 1,243,0 900. Last year wheat
decreased 200, and in 1898 it decreased
5,714, 900.
Kansas City receipts: Wheat, 275 cars;
last year, 2Ol. Corn, p cars; last year.
Liverpool close: Wheat unchanged to
sd higher; corn unchanged.
wheat), 25S, 900 bu.; corn, $4,000 bu.
Primary receipts: Wheat, $4,000; last
year, 838, 900. Corn, $4,000; last year, 49,
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Collision in a Fog.
a

Cumberland. Md, July 31-During a
quesne limited from Pittsburg collided
with a local freight at Mount Savage,
three miles west of here. Five persons
were injured, none seriously Their
names are: Frank WhitelaW, CleVe-
land, O.; Mrs Mary Dolan, Pittsburg;
d. M. Bull, Bullsville, N. Y; Dominic
CARNEY, Italian; Henry Douglas,
Homecoming Md
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killed by his soldiers in the bread riots
not long ago without the slightest prov
ocation- 1t may be that the man who
has killed him indicated the blood of
that occasion. The Italians in this city
do not believe that the murder was con-
cocted or was the result of a plot.
L do not know what will be the situa-
ton in Italy, but one thing is sure, and
that is soon the monarchy will be a
thing of the past
The italian federation is about los, 900
strong in the United States.
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kansas Citv Live Stock market.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 31.-CATTLE-
Receipts, 5000; market steady to strong
Native steers, $400G5.60; Texas steers.
cows and heifers. s.. 1905. 90; stockers and
feeders, 50. O0d4 60; bulls, $3.O0d3. rs.
HOGS-Receipts, 10000: market weak to
sc lower. Bulk of sales, $5.10Q51715; heavy
s5.1215M5.2 Is; packers, S5-10d5. 20; mixed,
s., 05d5.15; light. $49od5.15; workers., 5000
SIS: pigs, 81. 60G505.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000; market strong
Lambs, $4.00Q565; muttons $3.0Gdl4.E2.
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Kansas CITY, Proauoe Market.

Kansas City, Mo, July s1,-wHEAT-
Cash: No. 2 hard, 661zd67c: No. 3, 64Q6674c C;
No. red, 7219c; No. 3, 67G71c.
,0S> ORNSmSeptember, esq Sc se,l pee December
white. 3s15c; No 3, 3sc.
OATS-No. 2 white, 261zq27c.
RYE@No. 2. 49c.
HAY-Choice timothy. $3.50; choice
prairie, $3.50.
BUTTER-Creamery. 15Q1sc; dairy,
fancy, 15c.
EGGSFresh, &c.
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WHEAT-Liverpool cables came only
sd higher this morning. northwest re-
ceipts continue liberal, Bradstreet's
world s visible increased over two million
and in fact all the news just as
bearfsh as possible, yet the market held
steady. 1t looks like everybody is short
a little wheat. This is the only way we
can account for it The news was GER
tainly very, very bearish, and it must
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First Coal From America.

St Petersburg, July 31.-The first cargo
of American coal imported into Russia has
arrived at Reval for the use of the War
saw railway Three thousand tons of
New river coal has also reached Cron-
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Chicago, July 31-WhoIesa1e raids on
alleged bucket shops today resulted in
the arrest of over two hundred per-
sons The police swoOped down upon
the spectators without warning and it
is said that some prominent board of
trade men were included among the
persons arrested.
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New York, July 31.-BUTTER-Stead
Creamery, 17d1915c; current packed fac
tory, 14M1534c. -
BUTTER Steady; creamery, 15g1sc;
dairy, 14d17c.
EGG@DulI. 11ihc.
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He Killed Seven Men.

New Orleans, July 31.-H. H. Bate
aged 65, an insurance solicitor, who
was shot by the negro Charles in the
attic in the house at Clio and Sara
toga streets on Friday died today. This
makes seven men Charles killed, all
white
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Topeka Markets Today.

Topeka Markets Today.
Topeka, July 81.
CATTLE
COWS AND HEIF'ERS- .50G325.
HOGS.
LIGHT-s4 65049 go
MEDIUM AND HEAVY-$4 1904 50.
GRAIN.
NO. 2 WHEAT-6315c.
NO. 2 MIXED CORN-33c.
NO. 2 WHITE CORN-S5c.
NO. 2 OATS-22c.
HAYS. 00Q5.50.
PRODUCE
EGGS-s cents.
CHICKENS-6961z cents.
BUTTER-13c.
Elgin, III, July s1.-Creamery butter. 1sc
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-Four Drowned at Ocean City.

New York, July 31-A dispatch from
Ocean City, N. j., says four persons
were drowned in the surf there today.
All are said to have been residents of
PHILADELPHIA
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Sugar Market.

New York, July S1.-SUGAR-Raw
steady; refined, steady; crushed, $6.4Oi
powdered, $500; graduated, $610-
COFFEE-Quiet, but about steady. No
z Rio. 91hM5hc.
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Nominated for CONGRESS.

North Vernon, Ind, July 31--Nathan-
iel Powell was nominated for congress
by the Republicans of the Fourth dis
trict here today.
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closed dull: middiing gulf. 10 slice
Galveston, Tex. July s1.-COTTON-
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Topeka Hide Market.

1OPCAd
Topeka, July 81.
Based on Chicago and Boston quota
lions. The following are net prices paid
in Topeka this week:
GREEN SALT CURED-6%c.
NO. TALLOW-315c.
GREEN-SALT HALF CURED-sKc.
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Cincinnati's Formulation.

Washington. July 31.-The census office
today announced the population of the
city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to be 325 9O2 an
increase over the last census of Is, 994.
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FORTIETH EDITION.
b% Put copy in your grip-you will
enjoy reading it on your vacation.
THE STORY OF A
COUNTRY TOWN
By E. w. HOWE.

CHAR DUDLEY WARNER:
ssThe book is one of the small num-
Der of genuine American books.r
w. ID. HOWELLS, in Century:
ga fiction which is of the kind most
characteristic of our time, and
which no student of our time here
after can safely ignore"
MARK TWAIN:
s'When read passages from it, Geo.
W. Gable shouted, Superb 1 like
the Country Town so much that I
am glad of an opportunity to say So"
SATURDAY REVIEW:
GA remarkable book; in all respects
one of the most remarkable of Am
erican books"
EDINBURG REVIEW:
'fWestern civilization in back coun-
try districts has been we'll drawn by
Edward Eggleston, but with greater
intensity and reserved power by E.
w. Howe in The Story of Country
Town."
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Women love clear, healthy complex
ion Pure blood makes i Rurdock
Blood Bitters makes pure blood.
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Ranre OF Prices.

Furnished by J. c. Goings, Commission
Merchant 112 East Fifth street, Topeka,
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain.
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In Paper Cover, 0Go
AT KELLAM'S, EJG

Postage 8 cents extra.
Cloth bound. pest paId. &L2E.
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RANGES of Prices on Stocks.

Furnished by ]. c. Goings, Commission
Merchant 112 East Fifth street, Topeka.
Kansas, receiver and shipper OF gram
New York, July 81.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-30
Totals

Tt will be seen that as a whole the up
per five feet of soil in the cultivated
area contained wei a third more water
than the upper five feet in the urculti-
waited area. But when only the avail
able water in each is taken into con-
sideration the difference is much great
er. Plants cannot remove all the waite"
a soil contains. In such a soil as the
above, at least 5 per cent would be left
in it after the r~ootlets had removed all
they had power to remove. Making this
deduction, the soil in the cultivated
area would be found to contain about
twice as much available moisture as
that in the uncultivated area. Making
the statement in another form, the loss
of water from the uncultivated area
from March 5 to May 23 exceeded the
loss from the cultivated area the equiv
alent of over 3 inches of rainfall. To
replace this loss from a ten-acr field
would necessitate the running of a
ten hours.
In order to produce the best results
the soil must be so cultivated, however,
that it is not left broken up into large
clods that will permit the air to reach
the underlying strata. The finef and
looser the surface mulch the better, and
in our arid region it needs to be deeper
than elsewhere.
Weeds injure growing crops by APP
propriating the available plant food and
by removing water from the soil. While
a soil may be very fertile, there seldom
is present enough plant food, in the
form necessary for the use of plants, to
support a crop of weeds and a crop of
fruit, grain or vegetables at the same
time. But weeds usually do the greatest
injury by removing from about the
roots of the crop the water needed by it.
Not only do weeds require water foi