Show SAME bati bothersome E WEEDS pests to th the e aborigines continue to be B an annoyance to farmers now tilling the soil when samuel champlain Champ lala earned the tha gratitude of succeeding generations by keeping a journal as aa he sailed alonar the coast from the mouth of the st lawrence to cape ann he recorded among other things the appearance of the fields which the indian women cultivated not far from the site of the present town of gloucester mass he described relates a writer the hoea used by them made from the shells of the horseshoe crab a creature which interested him greatly and he also told of the weeds which these women grubbed up with their primitive hoest hoes thus saving their corn beans and squashes among the weeds he mentioned especially pec ally lally the of which he saw enough and if he could come back today and inspect the gardens along the he br massachusetts shore he would find the same weeds flourishing in the same old olda way rf nl n I l holding their own against the tha most adern nd ern of farm implements more rian that it would not be surprising if he found fields in which the weeds had gained the upper hand and had bad smothered the planted crop whether of beans squash or corn and he be could well be pardoned if he be wondered 04 that agriculture after more than years was still helpless against the weeds which he be had fought in his bl day |