Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-04

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Hand digging of small patches, tar
red paper, straw and hay are some
times USED for s%mothering 1t. Sum,
mer following after a crop has been
removed is good.
Our worst weed Is Wiid oats. The
first step is stop sowing grain con
taining wild oats seed. However. if
a field has once become infested with
this pest ii is best to plant to cult
waited crops for several years, and
also SOW early maturing crops, such
as barley. THIS will be harvested
before the wild oats is ripe.
Green foxtail is easily killed by
cultivation. Smart weed is not a
hard weed to control. Hand pulling.
together with moving vas places
several times a season rye to kill
it.
Wild ~buckwheat, if the soil is kept
under good cultivation, can be kept
out.
Russian Thistle will give no trou-
bic if plants are kept from getting
ripe.
! have Lad good success keeping
pig weeds down by good cultivation
OF the seed bed before sowing grain.
And Wild mustard-ayoid sowing
seed containing the same. If the land
is sowu II grass for everal years and
then planted to cultivated crops COR
a year or so the mustard will be re-
duced.
Always plant clean grain. Badly
infested LAND with wild peppergrass
can re planted 10 some cultivated
crop, This weed will give no trouble.
One OF our worst weeds to get rid
of is the wild morning glory. Keep
the land in clean cultivation for two
years,
Canada thistle. Hand digglngs
have given good success.
Weed seeds in soil win terminate
to about the depth OF two inches. If
below this depth they will remain
dormant until brought nearer the sur
face by the cultivator or plow. This
proves the wisdom of giving corn a
shallow cultivation after the second
time through. Deep blowing later
brings up a crop Of weeds after the
corn Is harvested
Even in the fence corners weeds
draw the strength from the soil a
long distance and should be kept down
Alofg the road 1t is easy to know a
lazy, careless farmer. If no n ever
let q weed go to seed it would not
take long to get rid Of them all. Count
the seeds that a single weed will ]
produce in one season, 1t is stated
a single plant OF horse weed pro-
duces about 24,000 seeds; pig weed
about 115,600 seeds, and a single wild
mustard plant has been known to
produce 10000 seeds, and then try
to imagine the damage done by let
ting even a dozen OF them get ripe.
1t is this carelessness that has forced
authorities to make SO many laws for
getting rid Of them.
If the weeds are cut in the fall and
the tops burned before the seeds are
ripe one great step has been taken
toward keeping them out of The crop
and keep them cut of. No plant can
grow If it has nc leaves to take in
the air and some light.
Sheep are good weed 5destroyers.
OF the more than Ave hundred weeds
and other plants growing in the
Northwest, horses eat 80, cows under
80, but sheep greedily consume more
than 45O Of them.
And let Ii be resolved that we will
do all In our power toward getting
rid of the weeds and that each and
every one Of us will try to plant at
least d few trees during the season OF
1915.
a song by the school. MT. Vernon
Bells was very much appreciated by
the audience.
aGlimpses OF the Life of Washing
tom by Mrs. Evenson. George WashT
was born on the 22nd of Feb-
riary, 1872, on the banks OF the beau
tiful Potomac river in Virginia. Ills
died when George was about
ten years OF age In the year 1858
he was married to Mrs. Martha Gus
tia Retiring to the estate at Mt.
Vernon, he devoted himself assiduous
ly to the business OF agriculture and
became one OF the greatest landhold
ers In North America, His MI. Yer
non estate alone consisted OF nine
thousand acres and his domestic and
establishments were composed
Of nearly thouand persons. Wash
died at the age OF sixty years.
no children. On the 18th of
his remains We're placed In
the family vault at Mt. Vernon.
they have mouldered IN dust,
while his soul and his Immortal works
live on and his fame grows brighter
throughout all lands.
The program for the next meeting
on March 9th. Isl as follows
Music. Vivian Mapess
Reading Myrtle Scot.
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