Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-06-24

bed of weeds. When vas through,
the hoed-up weeds covered the SUR
face almost as thoroughly as before I
began.
My own worst weed enemy this
year. is that confounded chickweed. 1t
has been gradually coming IN on me
for two or three years This time it
arrived with both feet.
When was small boy some friend
gave me canary bird. / used to
hunt the farm over for stray bits of
chicI1weed for him and actually
brought some home from a Ecighbor 8.
one day, because / couldn't find
enough on the home place.
Now, | wish someone would call on
me to feed a million adfeyy birds" on
ehickweed at a dollar bird! I've
got the stuff to do II with!
also wish senne one of you sthat
has had experience with tire stuff
would tell me how to manage it.
don't particularly care for theories
about it. But would really like to
know il any OF you have yer been
up against it real hard AMI ave prac-
| tically controlled it.
My own asparagus bed is a sight e
make a truck gardener weec. 1t is a
| solid mating of chickwee.l through
which not a square inch of soil is VS.
| ible: chickweed running from four to
twelve inches high and actually
/ blanchfng the asparagus slams which
| have nerve enough to push nj. through
| it as effectually as if .hssv were
trencfed in soil. Now I 1eSl't want
blanched asparagus; my marNet calls
| for green. Furthermore. tile stuff is
running the asparagus ont--si4s,king it.
--
Last year was the first when it real
/ ~ troubled me. It was ,Iretty thick
and when we stopped cutting aspara-
/ gus. about June 21 we shafk.ened our
| hoes into vegetable safety zors and
| shaved the whole top of tie bed off
/ We gathered UP the weed and drew ii
/ to one side of the bed-hve Iwo-horse
wagon loads of it off a two thousand
root bed. This. which we hoppe
| would kill the stuff, didn't etcn Phaze
it. Today there are more tnan ter
/ wagon-lo of it on the ssime bed
| We weren't able to fight Ii when !;
sprouted because the ground was KEEP
constantly sodden by steady rainfall
/ Now it is beyond the reach of han6
tools. l don't want to psow up ths
I bed and kill all nIvf asparagus for the
sake of finishing the cnickweed. Thu
| would be too much like burning one'i
house to get rid of the rafs. The bei
is only six or eight years old an,
B ought to be at its productive best.
want to save it, if can.
But how shall I do it?
What propose to do. If no one o
you can advise me a better plan, is t,
tear up the surface with spring
tooth harrow. as soon as we ar
through cutting asparagus, cart OF
enough of the punched up weeds t.
enable Es 70 get at the dirt md mel
low It, then SOW bucbWheat tlhicl
enough to make a dense growth
BuckWheat viii kill common weeds
Whether it will succeed with chick
Il weed or not / shall have to find gu
by trying. But, if it is deadly to til;
II weed. congess to some nervousness
about its effects en- the asparagus. 7
it don't kill either, / shall have hal
my work for my pains. If it k lis botl
4 shall have burned down my house t
i get rid of my rats!
- ought to mention that l hay
tried salt at various rates Of iron
one ton to ten tons to the acre. Thi
kills the chickweed it is actually NJ:
on-a1ld seems to fairly eieetrify tn
next crop into a ranleness and exuber
ance no other fertilizer can equali I
wanted to grow chickN eed for tn
market, / should feed it saiti
If our local weather experiences Ia
| been fairly typical of that tflroug]
New ENGLAND, Tn wonderifg what it
J effect will be on the L5tato cror
Hereabouts those who have actual
planted are worrying for fear the see
: will rot in the water soaked sol
Those who have not been abte to plan
are wondering whether it isnsr too lat
to be worth while
That reminds me Of what an oil
! farmer. now dead, told me. some year
! ago. He was reminiscingY about on