CULTIVATING WEEDS.
One point made by the new school is that on the general farm weeds are regularly re-sown from the manure heap. Sonic few seeds of undesirable plants may be so sown, though most are killed ; but at the moment all the more disastrous examples of weed cultivation, so to say, are to be found on waste land ; the less manure the more weeds, is a general maxim. The most depressing sights I have seen this summer, on several counties and not least in Norfolk, have been the possession of good land by ragwort and thistles, both weeds which it is a legal offence to cultivate. Both have flying seeds, and therefore every patch of either infects the neighbouring acres. The regulation prohibiting the free growth of these two most
pernicious weeds is an absolutely dead letter. Ragwort is not only greedy of good ground, but is actually poisonous to stocks.
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