WEEDS.
crom the Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W
On new and unexhausted lands the bad effects of weed growth are doubtless due fully as much to the waste of moisture going on through their leaves as to with the crop for 1 plant-food. Heace all good orchardists are very careful about keeping their ground clear in summer; but it must not be forgotten that by doing so they quickly deplete their lands of vegetable matter, which requires systematic replacement by green manuring if production is to continue normally, yet of the two evils, the loss of moisture is more to be dreaded, and very generally in .practice the more difficult to remedy. Weeds in a dry country waste enormous quantities of soil moisture, each pound of weeds reducing the growth of corn by two pounds- Clean farming conserves moisture for the useful plants, and useful plants pribduce more bulk as well as more value from a given amount of available moisture.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 176, 11 March 1902, Page 4
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160WEEDS. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 176, 11 March 1902, Page 4
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