Show SAME bothersome WEEDS press pests to the tha AbI aborigine ginn continue to be B AM n annoyance to aln farmers em now tilling the soil sell when samuel champlain Champl aln earned the gratitude of succeeding generations generation by keeping a journal ate he tailed along ion 9 the mast coast from the month of the st lawrence to cape ann he recorded among other things the appearance of the fields which hleb the indian women cultivated not net tar far from the site ot of ill present town we a 0 gloucester wais mass he de described bribed retain relates a writer the hoes used need by them made train the shell bells ot at the horseshoe horse thoe cral crab a creat creature com which interested him greatly and he also told of the weeds which these theme women grubbed up with their primitive hoes has 01 thus ing thel their r corn a beans aad ad althes among the werda weeds he mentioned ess es specially ally the pur alne allme of which he saw to enough ough and if he could come back bach to day and add inspect the gardens along the M am A shore her he would find bud the same weeds flourishing in ID the same old way at I 1 holding their ume own against the most dern of farm implements more marc no that it would not at be sur aur prison ir if he be found fields field 1 ID which the weeds had gained aulne d the upper hand bond and had smothered the planted crop whether of df beang squash quash or men corn and bemuse he be could well it be pardoned if he wondered ders that agriculture after more a than years we was still indri helpless against the weeds weeda which he be had bad fought in his day |