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Show ONE OF WORST WEED PESTS Horse Nettle Ranks with Canada Thistle and Quack Gra6B One Method for Eradication. We are again in receipt of our old friend, the horse nettle. This time it Is a central Iowa correspondent who sends us the prickly-leafed, potato-blossomed potato-blossomed weed, 6ays Wallace's Farmer. Far-mer. He says that In the locality there Is only one patch, and It is but 3ixty feet square. He wishes to know how to get rid of the weed. As all of our older readers know, horse nettle ranks with Canada thistle and quack grass as one. of the worst of the weed pests. It Is degenerate relative of the potato and tomato, which spreads not only by abundant seeds, but by strong underground rootstocks. The only way to deal Horse Nettle. with such a pest is continually to prevent pre-vent the leaves from spreading themselves them-selves out in the sunshine. Everything considered, probably the best method tor our correspondent would be to take a sharp hoe and go over the patch every ten days, cutting off every ev-ery horse nettle plant just below the surface of the ground. This treatment treat-ment is troublesome, but with such a small patch it probably is the safest ind best. |