TO DESTROY COUCH OR QUACK GRASS.
The laud should be ploughed eight inches deep after haying, inline dryest parts of Jnly or August ; furrows laid ! as flat as possible; which will, bury the roots at least four inches deep, then harrow with Randall's harrow, which is the best ; it being dry weather and the roots buried deep it will be several weeks before any oppearancs of life will .be seen, but when any appear iv September or October harrow . again. Iv i the spring, manure on the surface and harrow it or use a horse cultivator, but the. land must not be ploughed, as the object is to keep the roots buried as deep as possible ; then at the proper time plant squashes, cabbages, fodder corn sown thick in rows near together, or any crop that will completely cover and shade the ground in a short time. This, with the ordinary cultivation, will cure the evil in one year. The potato crop will not do it ; the roots will pierce the potato through and through, and the more the grass roots are cut by hoeing the more they increase. And so with any crop or cultivation that does not completely shade the ground. To smother it in that way is sure success. I do not consider it any serious objecjection to cultivation. — New England j Fanner.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 183, 4 August 1877, Page 6
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226TO DESTROY COUCH OR QUACK GRASS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 183, 4 August 1877, Page 6
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