THE MANAGEMENT OF WEEDS.

Close Cropping and- Thorough Cultiva- tion the Best Preventives Known.

Weeds grow less with every year of • cropping and thorough cultivation. ' Constant stirring of the soil prevents weed seeds from doing more than ger- ; zninate. /Killed at this early stage, but ' little trouble is experienced. One of the j worst plant pests the farmer has to con tend with is the Canada thistle. When

' once his fields are infested, it is next to impossible to circumvent this foe, which, however, in the garden, by constant cultivation, is easily eradicated. Pre vent all growth above ground. Nothis tJe root, nor any other perennial root will live long without a chance to breathe _____/ through its foliage. The annual weeds must be conquered by destroying them before they perfect their seeds. Numbered with the most troublesome of these are purslane, chick weed, wild mustard and the ragweed, here depicted. Everywhere along road sides may be seen the coarse, dusty foli age and dull green spikes laden with pollen* of the unsightly plant known as ragweed in some sections and as horse weed in others. When growing in sit uations where it is practicable to run the mower before the flowers are sufficient ly advanced to perfect their seeds this will be found to be a good plan. Being an annual, this method when through i will destroy the crop for another year. Sheep will eradicaate this weed if pas tured on the ground infested. - In the .... cut, reproduced from The Prairie Farm* "~ er, is shown the flower spikes of rag weed about one-fourth natural size. As a substitute for patent weeders, Greiner suggests common iron spoons and broken case knives, properly ground to an edge on both sides and bent in the shape of a curve. In fact, any small, aharp edged tool can be utilized as a hand weeder. The instrument shown at the top of the second illustration can be made by any blacksmith, using an old spade han dle and a piece of wagon spring. To utterly demolish burdock, set this cutter about two inches from the plant at an angle of about 80 degs. from the per pendicular; with the foot press the cut-

ter down far enough to cut off the root, Now lift the burdock by the hand from its place and the work for that burdock is done. This instrument and process severs the roots below the crown, and it will not sprout again. The blade of the other instrument, shown at bottom, is a wide piece of old wagon spring, twenty inches in length, sharpened at both ends. A block of hard wood, seven inches long, is bolted to center of blade to hold the wooden handle, forty inches in length. With this implement one stroke is re quired, and one can take out weed roots at a rapid rate. These burdock cutter* were originally illustrated by The Coun try Gentleman.

___ FLOWER SPIKES OF RAGWEED.

BURDOCK CUTTEKS.

Pop Corn.

Any white variety is marketable. The rice variety i 3 preferred by some confec tioners, but the white flint generally sells as readily, and is a better yielder. The cultivation is similar to that of field corn, only it should be better than that often given. The ground must be in good order, as the plants are much, less stocky when coming up than those of other corn. Plant in drills about three feet apart, and leave two stalks every fifteen or eighteen inches. The rice com can be planted a little thicker than this, but the flint grows a larger stalk, and four stalks for each nine feet of ground is about right. Buyers do not want pop corn less than one year old, as it will not pop well any gooner unless artificially dried. One can raise from CO to 100 bushels, of forty pounds each, of pop corn on an acre, de pending upon soil and variety. It is a crop that pays big when one is able and willing to wait for the right year to sell, which comes once or twice in five years, possibly oftener. Plant white flint, have pure seed, store the crop secure from mice, and when it is a year old get the names of seedsmen and leading confec tioners in cities and write them, advises Ohio Farmer.

Agricultural Items.

It is claimed for Burpee's extra early potato that it is not only very early in maturing', but immensely productive of • tine quality tubera. For the first early crop many garden ers plant the Alaska pea; for a wrinkled pea, the American Wonder; others like McLean's Little G-em. News from various parts of the cotton belt indicate a decreased acreage in cot ton and an increased acreage in other crops. The most noted and widely distributed of American pasture grasses is the Ken tucky blue grass, or June grass (poapra tinses)

SLAUGHTERING THE BIRDS.

Unsounted Numbers Killed by California Hunters.

j The wild pigeon is not yet extinct In j America —no, not by many millions. ! And, though the days of their plenitude have long since passed in all the states east ! of the Mississippi, they occasionally amaze ! the people Of some remote section of the west by coming in millions from no one knows where. Such a case was that of the recent invasion of the Santa Crass moun tains in California, which excited all the sportsmen and would be sportsmen of the state. Not many years ago the old settlers of the central weist were often heard lamenting the disappearance of Che wild pigeons. They

told how at various times the birds would come in clouds that literally shut out the rays of the sun; how they crossed the Ohio in certain stated places and roosted in cer tain forests in such masses that the soil and timber showed the effects for years after. More than one such district is still known as Pigeon Roost. In southern Indiana one such tract extended for six miles, and old settlers declare that every tree on the tract was loaded with pigeons as long as the limbs would hold them. Why the birds mass in this way no one knows, but a few days since they concen trated along Boulder creek, California, and soon hundreds of people were banging away at them with every known fire arm. The ground in many places looked as if feather beds had been ripped open and scattered along it. In the villages the i barroom tables were piled high with them. They came lean, but feasting on the ma drone berries soon made them fat. The variety is that called the Columba fasciata, or band tailed pigeon, and ranges on the Pacific from British Columbia to Guate mala Its main rendezvous is west of the Rocky mountains to the Columbia river. An ornithologist of Colonel Long's cele brated expedition of 1833 first discovered the variety. California scientists believe that they have breeding grounds in the far north of British Columbia, the Northwest Territory and Athabasca. The region of the wood buffalo would apparently suit them well. They were driven south by the storm. That is agreed upon, and as they fly with as tounding rapidity they might have reached California even though coming from the remote regions of Hudson's bay. The fan tailed visitors are ashy in colo? and have a fine bluish cast on the rump. Their primary feathers and the basil por tion of the tail are dusky, and the larger wing coverts are edged with white. The bill and legs are yellow. There Is a sharp, whirring sound when they fly. At last ac counts they were being slaughtered wan tonly by tens of thousands, and still there were millions more.

THE BAND TAILED PIGEON. I

The Fighting of Duels.

The world has had its laugh about the Clemenceau-Deroulede duel in Paris, and itemizers once more remind us how much more deadly Irish, English and American duels are than those of other peoples. In the palmy days of American dueling, which may be said to have ended with Jackson's administration, it was almost a disgrace for the parties to leave the ground without one or the other being disabled, and the ferocity of Irish duels a century ago has been many times celebrated. Yet singular as it may seem for such a practical people, the Eng lish have the record for the most senseless and causeless duels. In 177T Lieutenant Featherstonehough and Captain McPherson, of the British ; army in New York, fought over the proper manner of eating green corn, one insisting that it should be gnawed from the cob and the other that it should be cut off. The lieutenant lost his right arm. One officer 1 was challenged for merely asking his oppo nent to pass him a goblet; another was com pelled to fight about a pinch of snuff. Gen eral Barry was challenged by Captain Smith for declining wine at a dinner on a boat, although the general pleaded as an excuse that wine Invariably made him sick, and Lieutenant Cowther lost his life in a duel because he was refused admit tance to a club of pigeon shooters. Major tfoah was killed In a duel about the trump In a game of cards, and others in duel 3 about game, dogs, birds and scores of other trilling matters.

A Valuable Music Box.

A young man in St. Louis was recently married, and among the wedding presents was a nice music box, His house was en tered by burglars the other night, and as they were rummaging through the parlor one of them tried to open the music box, thinking, presumably, that it might be a jewelry case or something of that sort. fps efforts started the box to playing, and the owner was aroused from hia slumbers by hearing the strains of "Auld Lang Syne*' pealing forth from his parlor. He got his gun, started to investigate the cause of the untimely musio and entered the parlor lust in time to see the burglars beating a hasty retreat. Nothing was taken from the house, and he thinks that the music box ■aved him from a considerable loss.

Tough on the Animals.

Of all the extraordinary scientific experi ments surely the most extraordinary la that reported as having been made at Si. Petersburg. Borne trials of armor plates were going on, and "thi3 trial waa made use of to carry out a very curious experi ment to decide the effects of heavy gun firing upon the nervous system of animals. A number of rabbits were slung up in bags on frames close to the line of fire, and dogs and cats were also tied up under cover be neath the muzzle of the gun.'' The result Is not given.

Wells in the Desert.

The successful boring of an artesian well in tfae Colorado desert ia of hopeful omen for the reclamation of that region, A miguty stream of water rose from a great 4epth—cool, pure water—and cQntintt** |d" flow. Other borings will doubtless beoait ried out, and then Will the desert bloMoi as a garden.

£HE ASHBtfRTON GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2l 189*.

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AWING TO THE SUCCESS "WHICH HAS ATTENDED MY BUSINESS, I I find it necessary to PROCURE ASSISTANCE Which I am now endeavoring to do. "T TAKE the opportunity to lhank the Public of Ashburton for their kind patronage, and to say that I hope to continue to merit their support. H. E. ISoimiiigton, CHEMIST & DRUGGIST EAST STREET, ASHBURT.CN*



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{ WALKEB'S BOT FJjY REIViEDj>S TTrARRANTED TO CURE ANY HORSE AFFECTED WITH BOTS, IF GIVEN Tf IN TIME, and to Improve the Condition of the Horse, whether he hasßut« or not, given in two drenches. LOCAL TESTIMONIALS. Gray's road, Amberley, in all stages of transformation, I became September 6,1892. ; much alarmed about the rest of my stock. Mr Walker, Sir,—Your Bot Fiy I used your Bot Fly Remedies on one Remedy reached me in due course. I that was very bad, and had every symp gave them to one thai; was very bar 1, and torn of dying, and in three days she was as I had lost a splendid young horse, I completely cured, and is doing well. I got very anxious, as the stomach presented believe it is the ppper thing, and ,if one mass of bots in all stages, with the given at the proper time we shall have no coating eaten away. I am glad to tell more deaths from the Bot Fly. you that the one I drenched according to David Bkown. your instructions got quite beHer, and is . aow at his w< rk aaain. I would highly Brookside, December 12, 1892. recommend farmers to use the same in Mr Walker,—Sir, —1 wish to add my time, 98 lam satisfied that they will save testimony to the wonderful effects of your and greatly improve the condition of the Bot-fly Remedies. 1 had a valuable horse. Send me some of your Bot Fly horse which got very bad and gradually Preventive for the summer, and oblige, got worse, I quite believed he would —Tours veiy respectfuliy, have died. He kept losing flesh, got a Edward Watson. dry coat, tight skin, careworn expression _— of the eye, a cough, running at the nos- Rillinchy, September" 14, 1892. trils, and could scarce walk I got your Mr Rqbert Walker, Christchurch, remedies and gave them as directed, with Dear Sir—Your Bot Fly Remedies have khe most beneficial results. "The second proved a complete success with my horse, day after getting the last drench he began He had been very bad for some rims j the w> P»s» bots in handfuls, some of which coat dry, a tight skin, got very low in I herewith hand you. Immediately after condition, and got scarce able to walk. I passing the bots he began to mend, and quite expected he would die, as he had all is now as fat as butter, hearty and *ell, the symptoms of one that my neighbour thanks to Walker's 'Bot-fly Remedies, lost with the bots. I gave your remedies A.ny who doubt them send them tome, as you directed, with the following re- and I will convince them that your reme salts:—The horse, after gettilng the late dies are a boon to the community and-the bottle, became very pained, lying down suffering horse. Every horse should rolling and groaning with pain, in the navo them in the season, as lam cohfi paddock. He began to cough very hard, dent if usedthere will be nd more deaths each cough bringing aWay a thick humor- from the bot-fly. Vm this as you please ous matter from the nostrils, the like of H« Lovkll which I never saw before coming from a "~™~ horse. This continued all next day, Greenwood Farm, which lam cerain were the bots burst- South bridge, August 2, 1892. ing from, the ffects of th« Remedy, and Mr Walker, Sir, —I am glad to bear coming up through the nostrils by the testimony to the wonderful effects of your effects of the'cough. After this ceased, Bot Fly Remedies. <;ne of my best fchejhorse began to mend, and in six days horses became very bad ; the akin tight, I had him at work again, heartland well, the eye lifeless and a bad colour, and got j You should make these Remedies public, low in condition. Anxious to finish so that farmers might knew there is a ploughing a paddock I did nob want to remedy for this destructive pest. Send lay him up until he became unable to lift me some Preventive for keeping off the his feet, or do any more. We had to fly n summer, —And oblige, help him into the stable. I gave him Robert Mclorraw. your Remedies, and the treatment you prescribed, and in a few days he was Ambetley, July 26, 1892. quite better, and is now at his work, To Mr Robert Walker, Christchurch. hearty and well. I quite believe, had I Sir, —Having lost three good horses, and not given him your Remedies, he would on examination found the stomach of two have died. You can use this as you completely eaten through, and the whole please. Robert Thompson. of the stomach thickly covered with bots AGENTS FOR ASHBURTON—W Andebson k J. 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THIS IS THE WATCH OF THE FUTURE, and s kept in Hunting and'Crysta Cases, both of English and Foreign Manufacture, THE HALL, BAST STREET" ~~ ■ Barrett Bros, and Bairstow, DRAPERS, CLOTHIERS, AND HOUSE FURNISHERS, TTTE are now Showing a Grand Assortment of WINTER GOODS. BLANKETS From 6s lid per pair. BLANKETS RUGS A Grand Assortment, from 4s lid. RUGS FLANNELS Colonial, from 10£ d per yard. FLANNELS FLANNELETTES A splendid range, from 4d to lOd per yd FLANNELETTES SHIRTINGS The noted leather Shirtings, 6Jd to 10Jd. SHIRTINGS DRESSES A choice Assortment. 4s 6d to IJ7s 6d. DRESSES '< CRETONNES 4£d, Art Muslina 4id, Turkey Chintz 6d per yd. SHEETINGS, Quilts, Bed Ticking, Toweling, &c., &c. CLOTHING Men's Suits from 255. CLOTHING CLOTHING Men's Overcoats 275, Boys' 10s 6d CLOTHING A pplendid assortment of Shirts and Underclothing. ASE NOTE THAT WOOLS AND COTTONS ARE REDUCED IN PRICE. THE STOCK OPEN FOR INSPECTION. NO ONE ASKED TO BUY. NOTE THE ADDRESS— Old Town Hall, East Street. 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