Excerpt from Reports of the Botanical Department of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, by Byron D. Halsted, Sc. D., For the Year 1897In this sharp struggle many of the smaller or less fortunate weeds had doubtless gone to the wall. Of those remaining, the last six, with the addition of Helianthus annuus, seem most likely to triumph.At the time the patch was examined, when no weeding had been done, the soil was found hard indeed, and the beets that were dug for root-inspection required both much patience and muscular effort, and in this respect differed from the comparatively mellow soil in the ad joining belts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.