Keep Up With Weeding or Pay the Price
"One year's seeding," says the old proverb, "makes seven years weeding."
June 21, 1843
On this day, The New England Farmer published a simple post on weeding.
Here's what it said:
The checking of weeds and the stirring of the soil must be most perseveringly and faithfully performed if you expect to obtain good crops.
No weed should be suffered to [maturity] before being destroyed:
"One year's seeding," says the old proverb, "makes seven years weeding."
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