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VOL. LVH. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JUNE 14, 1902. NO. 24 %xptxUntz gcpartnueut. MOW CAN YOU KILL THE HONEY LOCUST, THE SAND BUR, AND OTHER NOXIOUS PLANTS THAT ARE HARD TO DISPOSE OF? Destroy Them While Young. 1st Premium.—The quickest way to kill the honey locust is to pile brush or any material that will make a hot fire around the tree at the base and set it afire. Soil oc which trees have been killed in this way in* the spring of the year will produce a good crop of corn or other crops the same season. There is no more sprouting as it kills the tree, root and branch. Where one has a large grove of them to kill, as is sometimes the case, the above method is a slow one, and for the smaller trees a faster way is to select a dry hot week in August and girdle the trees, three feet or more from the ground, and peel the bark from the girdle down to the roots. This is almost as effective in time as the fire process, but does not always tell on the trees immediately as the fire does. While the killing of trees will be of interest to a limited number of your readers who live in timbered districts, we believe that the destruction of weeds is of much more importance and is a subject which interests every reader of the Indiana Farmer who is a tiller of the soil. For convenience we will divide the weeds into three classes, annuals, biennial and perennial. For the complete destruction of a noxious plant, the production of seed must be prevented, and if the plant is a biennial or perennial the root stock must be killed. The processes by which seed production may be prevented are simple in most cases, and in no case are they impracticable. Yet with all of our labor and care with the common weeds that grow so abundantly and under such unfavorable circumstances, it seems almost impossible to eradicate them from our farms. We can*, however, at least keep them under subjection to such an extent that their damage will be comparatively small. The sand bur belongs to the annual class. It is injurious wherever it gets a foothold. It flowers from June to October and ripens its seed from July to November. As its name indicates, the plant is a grass, covered when* mature with small, round burs of green color, fading to straw color as they ripen. It thrives best in pastures where the soil is inclined to be sandy. In such localities it is called sand bur. In other localities it is called grass bur, hedge-hog grass, or Rocky Mountain sand bur. To rid a field of this plant or any of the annuals, such as fox-tail, pig weed, purslane, rag weed, cockle bur, horse weed, dog fennel, etc., all of which ate annuals and spring each year from seed only, first burn the field over. This will destroy many of the stills on the surface. Then plow the field shallow, so as not to bury the remaining seeds too deeply in the soil. This w ill cause most of the seed to germinate. Now cultivate, no deeper than the plowing. This will kill many of the weeds that have started and cause more seeds to germinate in this thin layer of soil. Now plow the land deeper and prepare and plant to some crop that will require frequent cultivation, which will destroy the seeds as they germinate from time to time through the season. We learn by experience that these annual weeds all grow and thrive best on soils that have been plowed but not cultivated, so do not plow a field and allow it to remain uncultivated. A thousand weeds can be destroyed as they germinate and are coming up with the same labor it takes to destroy one full grown weed, so I would say, kill and destroy while young and as fast as they come. Mow the wheat and oat fields over two or three weeks after harvest to prevent the weeds from going to seed. This will make a mulch that will be of benefit to the young grass previously sown or to protect the soil from winter winds as well. Cultivate the early potato patch and sow to turnips or some other fall crop. This will destroy the weeds and produce a paying crop of tur- ,iips as well. Mow the weeds aloug the fences, hedge rows and roadsides, while they are in bloom, and in this way many weed seeds will be prevented from ripening and being scattered over the field by winds, birds and animals. Keep always in mind that to eradicate the annuals the seeds must be destroyed. Biennial weeds, Mn-h as burdock, wild carrot, bull thistle, £tc, grow root the first year of growth and iluring the second season produce seed and die. Some species will, if prevented from going to seed by mowing or cutting the seed stem above the crown of the root, live three years or even more. Such plants should not be cut above ground, as it induces them to send up several shoots or stalks instead of the one. They should be grubbed out or the root cut below the crown, which can be done with a tool made by placing a chisel on the end of a fork handle. Biennials must have their seed destroyed, and their root severed below the crown to destroy the plant itself. Periennial weeds reproduce themselves by seeds each year ami also by some form of root system. Yellow dock, wild onion, plantain, milkweed, etc., are found among this class. These are the hardest to destroy. Grubbing will destiny ihem, but the process is a slow one. A dense, sod-forming grade, or a crop of clover or millet, is inclined to smother them out. Stacking grain* on a patch of them will exclude the light and cause them to die. They will also die in time if the stalk and leaves are frequently cut, preventing growth above ground. Plowing and cutting the roots in the spring of the }ear is inclined to multiply and increase their growth, especially the grasses. Seed must be destroyed, roots must be grubbed cut, or growth prevented above ground, to eradicate them. F. D. M. Cumberland Co., 111. Require! Constant Vigilance. 2d Premium.—The sand bur, called but- tonweed with us, is an annual that blossoms from June to October. It seeds a month after bloom, and haunts sandy pastures, especially those bordering on streams. Its green burs stick tight to the sheep. It is killed by close cultivation of the ground and burning the seedy stalks as one does the burdock. Like the latter it is not killed out by cutting while in flower. The honey locust, like the sand bur, is a most difficult thing to get rid of. As in the case of the biennial weeds, cut its top and you send greater strength to the roots, and where you destroyed one plant a dozen spring up around. The neighbor next me left a clump of them standing, thinking to make posts of them. He cut the posts and found they began immediately to rot. About this time he punctured his hSut*! with one of the thorns, and a valuable horse ran one of them in its foot. Both were side-tracked from work for three or four months. He ordered the locust destroyed, but they persisted in coming up, until at last he deadened them while the "sap was up," as he termed it, which is in June. This killed them out. Another neighbor bored holes in the main roots, put in salt, and got rid of some of them, finally getting rid of all by cutting out and building fires over the roots. This last is considered by some old fashioned farmers the speediest way of getting rid of the honey locust. Cutting many kinds of weeds while in flower will kill them. There are others that do not succumb so easily. An elderberry patch which for years we tried to clean out died for good and all when we cut it down in full blossom time. If meadow lands are kept well seeded and plow lands well cultivated, w:iils will not bother the farmer much. There is a farm law with us which compels a farmer to keep the sides of the roads bordering his land free from certain weeds. There should be a village ordinance compelling the same everywhere within its limits, as in vacant lots, commons and neglected corners, many a new and crop-destroying weed finds a strong start tn spread cuimtryward. The strongest weed, like all other plants, cannot live long if deprived cont'nuously of its breathing apparatus-its leaves. If one keeps whacking them off they are bound to give up the ghost at last. Cultivating and turning under weeds in a wet time is one good way to give them a good start; cultivating while dry will go a long way toward killing them out. After the summer crops are off the ground it is a mistake to allow them to lie idle for weeds to get a foothold in. A sec I crop, such as rye or crimson clover, should speedily follow. Tin* Canada thistle if not too thick can be killed by simply [Hilling them up. If thick they must be plowed up as soon as they appear above the ground, and the ground rolled. A single season usually ends the trouble if persistent efforts are made. The white wild, or ox-eye daisy, is nn excellent weed to restore worn out land, and it contains as much nutriment for cattle as hay, but in removing it from the ground it takes too much of the ground's fertility with it . If it is not wanted to build up the land by going back each year to it, it must be eradicated. Cultivating crops wbich must be worked over often is the one best way of getting rid of it. Not many would think the cockle bur a relative to the sunflower aud aster, but it is. Tin* ground it occupies should be seeded to clover and grass. Ragweed, bitter- weed, or hogweed as some call it, is a persistent weed. Close cultivation and heavy cropping will keep it down. Letting sheep pasture in fields infested with it is another, and some think the greatest, help in getting rid of it. Corn cockle: This seed getting in* our wheat lowers its price and makes poor wheat for flour. It can scarcely be screened from the wheat. To stamp this weed out requires seed wheat, to be screened as clean as possible from all cockle seeds, and planted upon ground not in wheat the year before. The farmer must always be on the lookout with spade and spud for -the reappearance of weeds he thought fully eradicated, because the seeds of so many weeds will lie in* the earth for several years and then germinate. Buring over ground destroys the seeds of many weeds. The bull thistle and wild carrot produce their ^seed V second year of their life aim 'i They must be prevented from li - i ' i. by cutting them out below the c. - . "' the roots. Wild carrot and wild oaC; ■> troublesome weeds. Persistent cuu. if each before they seed will finally rid the land of them. Horse nettle and buffalo bur aic two species of weeds rapidly scattering over our land. They are aggravating weeds, and soon take the place if not prevented from seeding. As they are an- caii be killed out by treating them with, Crimson clover or winter oats will often choke them out. The number of weeds is too large to specialize. Such weeds as dandelion, plantains, certain grasses, chicory, hawk weed, and even ragweed, can e killed out by treating them with, say, about 8 gallons of crude carbolic acid mixture to each square rod. The mixture is, one pint of carbolic acid to four of water. Tests for killing small weeds, auch as wild mustard, penny cress, etc., in wheat, with a ten per cent solution of copper sulphate, have been made. The weeds were all killed out by it, and the wheat not only left uninjured but greatly benefited, yielding a better crop for the spraying. Except the corn cockle, I have omitted naming plants or weeds decidedly poisonous. Of all weeds, the farmer should look after the corn cockle. That many a strange case of sickness in the family is due to its presence in the flour, is sun*. Borne of the poisonous plants are: False hellebore, wild larkspurs, laurel; stagiilmsli. branch ivy, bitter- swii t, sneezewort and jimpson. I. S. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents are given for the first, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company and should reach us one week before date of publication. Topics for discussion in future numbers of the Farmer are as follows: X.i. 328, June 21.—What is the value of the honey bee to the farmer? Give experience in* the production and sale of honey. No. 329, June 28.—Tell how to grow raspberries and blackberries. Are they profitable market crops? Matt Utettrs. Mrs. Melvlna Owens, 97 years old, the oldest woman in Blackford county. Is dead. O. H. Beeson, of Milton, has shipped 3,000 head of live stock from there in the last year. Alfred Hirt, a wealthy stave manufacturer of Grt-.ii. ustle, is on his way to Europe, It being his 83d trip. lie made the flrst trip CO yea s ago in a sailing vessel, and it took 53 day's time. Em niuiiaif.u-tures staves for German and French brewers and wine makers. Charles Phillipey, a farmer, 3 miles east of Petersburg killed 2 rattlesnakes near his barn, 1 having 13 rattles and a button, measuring 5 feet and 1 inch. The other had 10 rattles and a button and measured 4 feet In length. The reptiles showed fight when they were attacked by the farmer. Wm. Chapman, Kokomo, an old soldier, lost his voice in the civil war. He has only been able to utter shrill, soprano notes, but has suddenly regained his speech, and now has a deep bass voice, Chapman chocked while taking a drink. lie was taken to the office of a physician, and after treatment, coughed up a substance as hard as iron. Tbe case has baffled the physicians. In addition to the locusts that have invaded almost every portion of Wayne county, farmers living In Dalton township are contending with millions of small grasshoppers. Fields of clover are literally covered with them. Farmers say that grasshoppers in such numbers thus early in the summer were before unknown to this locality. A valuable horse, owned by Edmund Norton, of Edinburg, committed suicide by drowning. A veterinary surgeon was called to see the horse which was 111, and as It grew steadily worse the surgeon was called a second time. As he approached the animal to administer medicine, the horse broke loose from where it was tied and ran to the river nearby and jumped in, deliberately holding Its head under water until It was drowned. While hunting on the lst.Walter Irwin, discovered a large nest in the top of a tall tree, east of Brightwood, and shot at It. He wandered, away, without noticing the result of his shot. He returned to the woods with his gun and found a your.g eagle badly wounded, on the ground under the tree In which the nest Is located. .No one In the neighborhood of the woods has seen ihe mother bird. The little one will probably die. It Is ahout the size of a full-grown chicken.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1902, v. 57, no. 24 (June 14) |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Transcript | VOL. LVH. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JUNE 14, 1902. NO. 24 %xptxUntz gcpartnueut. MOW CAN YOU KILL THE HONEY LOCUST, THE SAND BUR, AND OTHER NOXIOUS PLANTS THAT ARE HARD TO DISPOSE OF? Destroy Them While Young. 1st Premium.—The quickest way to kill the honey locust is to pile brush or any material that will make a hot fire around the tree at the base and set it afire. Soil oc which trees have been killed in this way in* the spring of the year will produce a good crop of corn or other crops the same season. There is no more sprouting as it kills the tree, root and branch. Where one has a large grove of them to kill, as is sometimes the case, the above method is a slow one, and for the smaller trees a faster way is to select a dry hot week in August and girdle the trees, three feet or more from the ground, and peel the bark from the girdle down to the roots. This is almost as effective in time as the fire process, but does not always tell on the trees immediately as the fire does. While the killing of trees will be of interest to a limited number of your readers who live in timbered districts, we believe that the destruction of weeds is of much more importance and is a subject which interests every reader of the Indiana Farmer who is a tiller of the soil. For convenience we will divide the weeds into three classes, annuals, biennial and perennial. For the complete destruction of a noxious plant, the production of seed must be prevented, and if the plant is a biennial or perennial the root stock must be killed. The processes by which seed production may be prevented are simple in most cases, and in no case are they impracticable. Yet with all of our labor and care with the common weeds that grow so abundantly and under such unfavorable circumstances, it seems almost impossible to eradicate them from our farms. We can*, however, at least keep them under subjection to such an extent that their damage will be comparatively small. The sand bur belongs to the annual class. It is injurious wherever it gets a foothold. It flowers from June to October and ripens its seed from July to November. As its name indicates, the plant is a grass, covered when* mature with small, round burs of green color, fading to straw color as they ripen. It thrives best in pastures where the soil is inclined to be sandy. In such localities it is called sand bur. In other localities it is called grass bur, hedge-hog grass, or Rocky Mountain sand bur. To rid a field of this plant or any of the annuals, such as fox-tail, pig weed, purslane, rag weed, cockle bur, horse weed, dog fennel, etc., all of which ate annuals and spring each year from seed only, first burn the field over. This will destroy many of the stills on the surface. Then plow the field shallow, so as not to bury the remaining seeds too deeply in the soil. This w ill cause most of the seed to germinate. Now cultivate, no deeper than the plowing. This will kill many of the weeds that have started and cause more seeds to germinate in this thin layer of soil. Now plow the land deeper and prepare and plant to some crop that will require frequent cultivation, which will destroy the seeds as they germinate from time to time through the season. We learn by experience that these annual weeds all grow and thrive best on soils that have been plowed but not cultivated, so do not plow a field and allow it to remain uncultivated. A thousand weeds can be destroyed as they germinate and are coming up with the same labor it takes to destroy one full grown weed, so I would say, kill and destroy while young and as fast as they come. Mow the wheat and oat fields over two or three weeks after harvest to prevent the weeds from going to seed. This will make a mulch that will be of benefit to the young grass previously sown or to protect the soil from winter winds as well. Cultivate the early potato patch and sow to turnips or some other fall crop. This will destroy the weeds and produce a paying crop of tur- ,iips as well. Mow the weeds aloug the fences, hedge rows and roadsides, while they are in bloom, and in this way many weed seeds will be prevented from ripening and being scattered over the field by winds, birds and animals. Keep always in mind that to eradicate the annuals the seeds must be destroyed. Biennial weeds, Mn-h as burdock, wild carrot, bull thistle, £tc, grow root the first year of growth and iluring the second season produce seed and die. Some species will, if prevented from going to seed by mowing or cutting the seed stem above the crown of the root, live three years or even more. Such plants should not be cut above ground, as it induces them to send up several shoots or stalks instead of the one. They should be grubbed out or the root cut below the crown, which can be done with a tool made by placing a chisel on the end of a fork handle. Biennials must have their seed destroyed, and their root severed below the crown to destroy the plant itself. Periennial weeds reproduce themselves by seeds each year ami also by some form of root system. Yellow dock, wild onion, plantain, milkweed, etc., are found among this class. These are the hardest to destroy. Grubbing will destiny ihem, but the process is a slow one. A dense, sod-forming grade, or a crop of clover or millet, is inclined to smother them out. Stacking grain* on a patch of them will exclude the light and cause them to die. They will also die in time if the stalk and leaves are frequently cut, preventing growth above ground. Plowing and cutting the roots in the spring of the }ear is inclined to multiply and increase their growth, especially the grasses. Seed must be destroyed, roots must be grubbed cut, or growth prevented above ground, to eradicate them. F. D. M. Cumberland Co., 111. Require! Constant Vigilance. 2d Premium.—The sand bur, called but- tonweed with us, is an annual that blossoms from June to October. It seeds a month after bloom, and haunts sandy pastures, especially those bordering on streams. Its green burs stick tight to the sheep. It is killed by close cultivation of the ground and burning the seedy stalks as one does the burdock. Like the latter it is not killed out by cutting while in flower. The honey locust, like the sand bur, is a most difficult thing to get rid of. As in the case of the biennial weeds, cut its top and you send greater strength to the roots, and where you destroyed one plant a dozen spring up around. The neighbor next me left a clump of them standing, thinking to make posts of them. He cut the posts and found they began immediately to rot. About this time he punctured his hSut*! with one of the thorns, and a valuable horse ran one of them in its foot. Both were side-tracked from work for three or four months. He ordered the locust destroyed, but they persisted in coming up, until at last he deadened them while the "sap was up," as he termed it, which is in June. This killed them out. Another neighbor bored holes in the main roots, put in salt, and got rid of some of them, finally getting rid of all by cutting out and building fires over the roots. This last is considered by some old fashioned farmers the speediest way of getting rid of the honey locust. Cutting many kinds of weeds while in flower will kill them. There are others that do not succumb so easily. An elderberry patch which for years we tried to clean out died for good and all when we cut it down in full blossom time. If meadow lands are kept well seeded and plow lands well cultivated, w:iils will not bother the farmer much. There is a farm law with us which compels a farmer to keep the sides of the roads bordering his land free from certain weeds. There should be a village ordinance compelling the same everywhere within its limits, as in vacant lots, commons and neglected corners, many a new and crop-destroying weed finds a strong start tn spread cuimtryward. The strongest weed, like all other plants, cannot live long if deprived cont'nuously of its breathing apparatus-its leaves. If one keeps whacking them off they are bound to give up the ghost at last. Cultivating and turning under weeds in a wet time is one good way to give them a good start; cultivating while dry will go a long way toward killing them out. After the summer crops are off the ground it is a mistake to allow them to lie idle for weeds to get a foothold in. A sec I crop, such as rye or crimson clover, should speedily follow. Tin* Canada thistle if not too thick can be killed by simply [Hilling them up. If thick they must be plowed up as soon as they appear above the ground, and the ground rolled. A single season usually ends the trouble if persistent efforts are made. The white wild, or ox-eye daisy, is nn excellent weed to restore worn out land, and it contains as much nutriment for cattle as hay, but in removing it from the ground it takes too much of the ground's fertility with it . If it is not wanted to build up the land by going back each year to it, it must be eradicated. Cultivating crops wbich must be worked over often is the one best way of getting rid of it. Not many would think the cockle bur a relative to the sunflower aud aster, but it is. Tin* ground it occupies should be seeded to clover and grass. Ragweed, bitter- weed, or hogweed as some call it, is a persistent weed. Close cultivation and heavy cropping will keep it down. Letting sheep pasture in fields infested with it is another, and some think the greatest, help in getting rid of it. Corn cockle: This seed getting in* our wheat lowers its price and makes poor wheat for flour. It can scarcely be screened from the wheat. To stamp this weed out requires seed wheat, to be screened as clean as possible from all cockle seeds, and planted upon ground not in wheat the year before. The farmer must always be on the lookout with spade and spud for -the reappearance of weeds he thought fully eradicated, because the seeds of so many weeds will lie in* the earth for several years and then germinate. Buring over ground destroys the seeds of many weeds. The bull thistle and wild carrot produce their ^seed V second year of their life aim 'i They must be prevented from li - i ' i. by cutting them out below the c. - . "' the roots. Wild carrot and wild oaC; ■> troublesome weeds. Persistent cuu. if each before they seed will finally rid the land of them. Horse nettle and buffalo bur aic two species of weeds rapidly scattering over our land. They are aggravating weeds, and soon take the place if not prevented from seeding. As they are an- caii be killed out by treating them with, Crimson clover or winter oats will often choke them out. The number of weeds is too large to specialize. Such weeds as dandelion, plantains, certain grasses, chicory, hawk weed, and even ragweed, can e killed out by treating them with, say, about 8 gallons of crude carbolic acid mixture to each square rod. The mixture is, one pint of carbolic acid to four of water. Tests for killing small weeds, auch as wild mustard, penny cress, etc., in wheat, with a ten per cent solution of copper sulphate, have been made. The weeds were all killed out by it, and the wheat not only left uninjured but greatly benefited, yielding a better crop for the spraying. Except the corn cockle, I have omitted naming plants or weeds decidedly poisonous. Of all weeds, the farmer should look after the corn cockle. That many a strange case of sickness in the family is due to its presence in the flour, is sun*. Borne of the poisonous plants are: False hellebore, wild larkspurs, laurel; stagiilmsli. branch ivy, bitter- swii t, sneezewort and jimpson. I. S. Premiums of $1, 75 cents and 50 cents are given for the first, second and third best articles for the Experience Department each week. Manuscript should be sent direct to the Indiana Farmer Company and should reach us one week before date of publication. Topics for discussion in future numbers of the Farmer are as follows: X.i. 328, June 21.—What is the value of the honey bee to the farmer? Give experience in* the production and sale of honey. No. 329, June 28.—Tell how to grow raspberries and blackberries. Are they profitable market crops? Matt Utettrs. Mrs. Melvlna Owens, 97 years old, the oldest woman in Blackford county. Is dead. O. H. Beeson, of Milton, has shipped 3,000 head of live stock from there in the last year. Alfred Hirt, a wealthy stave manufacturer of Grt-.ii. ustle, is on his way to Europe, It being his 83d trip. lie made the flrst trip CO yea s ago in a sailing vessel, and it took 53 day's time. Em niuiiaif.u-tures staves for German and French brewers and wine makers. Charles Phillipey, a farmer, 3 miles east of Petersburg killed 2 rattlesnakes near his barn, 1 having 13 rattles and a button, measuring 5 feet and 1 inch. The other had 10 rattles and a button and measured 4 feet In length. The reptiles showed fight when they were attacked by the farmer. Wm. Chapman, Kokomo, an old soldier, lost his voice in the civil war. He has only been able to utter shrill, soprano notes, but has suddenly regained his speech, and now has a deep bass voice, Chapman chocked while taking a drink. lie was taken to the office of a physician, and after treatment, coughed up a substance as hard as iron. Tbe case has baffled the physicians. In addition to the locusts that have invaded almost every portion of Wayne county, farmers living In Dalton township are contending with millions of small grasshoppers. Fields of clover are literally covered with them. Farmers say that grasshoppers in such numbers thus early in the summer were before unknown to this locality. A valuable horse, owned by Edmund Norton, of Edinburg, committed suicide by drowning. A veterinary surgeon was called to see the horse which was 111, and as It grew steadily worse the surgeon was called a second time. As he approached the animal to administer medicine, the horse broke loose from where it was tied and ran to the river nearby and jumped in, deliberately holding Its head under water until It was drowned. While hunting on the lst.Walter Irwin, discovered a large nest in the top of a tall tree, east of Brightwood, and shot at It. He wandered, away, without noticing the result of his shot. He returned to the woods with his gun and found a your.g eagle badly wounded, on the ground under the tree In which the nest Is located. .No one In the neighborhood of the woods has seen ihe mother bird. The little one will probably die. It Is ahout the size of a full-grown chicken. |
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