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Rout the Weeds!

Why Certain Weeds Are Classed as Pernicious; Why Widespread Control Measures Are Needed; When These Weeds Do the Most Damage; When Control Measures Are Most Effective; How These Weeds Cause Injury; How to Control Them (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Rout the Weeds!: Why Certain Weeds Are Classed as Pernicious; Why Widespread Control Measures Are Needed; When These Weeds Do the Most Damage; When Control Measures Are Most Effective; How These Weeds Cause Injury; How to Control Them Among the weeds described in the following pages, Common Ragweed stands preeminent in this respect, for its universal abundance in harvested grain fields during late summer gives it title to the description, most abundant weed in the state. Both it and Giant Ragweed furnish cover and food for game birds in late fall and winter, at a time when other food is scarce, and the survival of natural game such as prairie chickens and quail in certain parts of our state is very possibly due to the food furnished at critical times by these plants. Pokeweed, notwithstanding that it harbors and provides a means of over wintering for the very destructive mosaic disease of cucumbers and muskmelons and that its berries and roots contain a poison, furnishes a drug which has been used extensively in alleviating certain human pains. Moreover, young Pokeweed shoots may be cooked and eaten like asparagus. Even Great Burdock and its much more abundant relative, Common Burdock, ugliest plants, as many think, of the countryside, furnish roots and seeds of medicinal value, and in Japan the Great Burdock is cultivated for its roots, which are eaten as a vegetable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date Australia
January 2nd, 2019
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
20 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
64
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x3
ISBN-13
9781527917286
Product ID
27968500

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