THE PRIMAL CURSE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1073, 13 October 1883, Page 4

THE PRIMAL CURSE.

The asks : 'Whence come the weeds? "A -hundred years ago, when an English farmer introduced an iron plough, his workmen throw it S#i<* and.Bai4it bronght in the weeds. And* it was true.—An old neighbor says “ they’re aat’ri-to the sileAnd that is . - true. Andl say manure brings them in, tqa‘ 4And-that The fact is, the &ga\‘4B so stocked' with . weeds' from the -mwfaoo-down -to bed - rock - that any .better < ikihd. of cultivation? 'encourages the weeds to grow, and with better crops -sT®lß#eStiU ntorenbundant weeds, in the > fpqocis® ratio that At & easier to grow weeds crops.*' And so. weeds are natural to ; for the-soil ia full of seeds,, and (the better ploughing we do with the better ploughs we have, the more the weeds -gkoft ; UndHho more wo-cultivate the soil, the more new or old seeds we bring up ; and the mo.-e matinVe we use, the stronger is the growth. It- -is-very discouraging. :Xhe more aifariher works, and the better X Jiecdoea'his-work/,the more he is pestered with- .'difßoalties' i>f all kinds,- The mere icttops, the more insects ;- and the richer -the- soil, the more weeds. ■ There' is no frqm ; .the old curse, and the brpw ,mßßt r sweat,, or the bread will not be and June is tbs'month when falls the. heaviest;, Np,doubt, at this.curse of.'endless labdr foil .mankind, the materiials, for it—the jeeds-jof,iveeds—began to fail ;and stock; ith&'groaiM}, #nd. harp been accumulating ever since, and; lip.ione knows'how deep they He in. the-ground.-everlasting and m^vpij-dying, .but waidng : lheir tarn ;to be 1 Drhiignt^t'o.the-surface and. to germinated