News Advocate | 1915-12-03 | Page 4 | Place for Noxious Plants

PLACE FOR NOXIOUS PLANTS sweet clover oice oace despised weed now valuable forage crop this tie tle make makes good silage tho the weeda weeds of yesterday may be come the cultivated crops of tomor row not many decades ago a at least in tho the memory of bome u persons now living the tomato was a weed of little value and generally believed to bo be poisonous not more than live years ago sweet clover which grows so 0 profusely along the roadside tn in many states was a despised weed now it la to a valuable forage crop and soil oil improver the demand for or the seed eed being greater than the supply western farmers are tin ling even the much detested rus russian a ian t this h I 1 5 tie tio makes good silage for stock feed ing every plant that grows has useful place tn in the economy of nature that some plants are weeds la Is because we have not yet learned to utilize them to our advantage