We have always contended that the alarm so often felt about the introduction of noxious weeds, and which often shows itself in the enactment of ridiculous laws by Legislatures against them, is wholly needless. A plant cannot possibly live over one season, if we do not permit the leaves to mature, and a crop of corn, with the clean culture that such a crop ought to have, will destroy the most persistently inclined. We have noted that the worst possible weed - the Horse nettle, Solanum Caroliniensis - has been utterly routed by this method. But it does good to keep people in mind of these things.

We note in a recent issue of the Country Gentleman, that "Mr. Nicol found nothing simpler and easier for the destruction of couch than the cultivation of corn, thoroughly performed. He had a field treated in the following manner with perfect success : The ground was first manured and plowed in autumn, as if there was no such thing as couch, using sharp coulters. In the spring it was cross-plowed and dragged till the first of June, when the corn was planted in hills. It was cultivated both ways once a week, and the couch kept under by hoeing, with thorough tillage till the corn fully occupied the ground. "We have seen a twelve-acre field, which was densely filled with couch, entirely cleared of it by plowing or cultivating once a week the season through, keeping the weeds constantly smothered so that they could not breathe. But by whatever way the work is undertaken, it will certainly fail if done in an imperfect manner, and not completely and thoroughly, and this is the reason that so many complain that they could never succeed".