It is generally believed that when
quack grass once gets a start it is prac
tically impossible to eradicate it. The
following special to the Pioneer Press
from Mankato gives the method em
ployed by a farmer near that place who
has successfully eradicated the quack
grass on his farm:
"Henry Dieteman of this county has
demonstrated that quack grass is not
to be feared, and that it is entirely prac
ticable to remove it speedily and
effectually with no other expenditure
than that of labor. Having a large
field grown up rankly with quack grass
he last summer fallowed it several
times, turning the roots up dragging
them and burning them when dry.
The season was far from being dry, yet
so successful was he that this year he
has not been able to discern a spear of
the grass on the field. He sowed the
field to wheat, and the yield was twen
ty* two and a half bushels, or the same
as another field that had had no quack
grass. A third field on the same farm,
with no quack gress, yielded only six.
teen bushels the acre. The rest which
the land had for one year, together
with the repeated cultivation, not only
killed the quack grass, but all other
weeds and foul stuff, and made the
land in shape to be productive. In this
way, nothing was lost, but everything
was gained."
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For Chronic Diarrhoea.
