- sgw  in, t4e state -- the gen qine- artiele  un til within a 
year. 1, have seen a grass that grows ýon low ground that haa A 
root-alittle-si-milar, but it is not the eeiiuine artiele. I found it 
in my garden Within a year, and, I am pe.rfectly satisfied I got lt 
of sorne of these nurserymen  and that is where friend Martin 
thirxlizs / he ggt his Canada, thistles, Now I have no doubt we ggt 
a great many of these thinom,3 throuorh- that means. I am satisfled 
that I imported it with raspberry roots.  I think we should be 
careful, when buying these plants of hurserymen, to look them 
over very, close and see it we dont-,get more than we bargain for. 
Mr. Stickney- I have. no deubt wa haye disseminated a lot 
of QU.ack::grass, from. my place. I am goino- to balance accounts 
with the Tärmers, We buy lots of manure from the hay brought 
into Uilwgukee fJom twenty miles all around us. We never fail 
to get, a, rist of seeds, trom the   in', the way of Quack grass 
and Canada thistles and mustard and snap grass. Those four 
items we get from all points. , It the farmers will clu.it even I Will. 
1           W         tbis-'tles, 
Secretar           This question of II Ho   to 
was asked in the Ountry Gentlemgn som'e ýt»me durinor the, mönth

of ])ecember last, and broucrht out letters from all over the la 
li an  of you take the paper, you remember readincr them. The 
sum and substance of all of them was eultivation, salt and 
clover. 
.,)fr.,,StickneZ - I would add, you ean very effectually keep 
them in check,' if, not"destroy -them, by two euttings wi . th the 
ýseythe in one season. j-ust. as the are coming i*n~ :when th.e stalk

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has its full size , and become hollow. All, the, qualities o- i the, 
plant are ready to be expended in the produQtion of seed. If 
you "ut the we*  growth that cerines after that in the ,--ame sea- 
son, you kill nineteen-twentieths of it. That is the easiest gnd 
simpfest check- you ean get. 
Mr... Daubner   I wish to remind Mr. Stickney that Canada 
thiS.tle. geeci, isn't ripe when hay is cut (Laughter.) 
Mr. Stickney    I take it back. The gentleman lives about. ýix 
miles weßt »of m el and bur prevailinom winds a.re from the west.

Mr. Daubner     I have no Canada, thistles on my   lace, > Two