Controlling Weeds
Without herbicides to selectively kill weeds, farmers hoed
the weeds by hand, which was hot, back-breaking work; or they
spent hours criss-crossing the fields with a machine called
a cultivator, which turned over the soil and cut off the weeds
at the roots.
"Our rows were 40 inches wide … that's
what it took for the horses [to walk] through…That
way you could cultivate north and south or east and west.
And weeds were a big problem because they didn't
have no herbicides, so if you could go both ways then
you could get most of your weeds." -- Dean
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| A farmer cultivates with
a horse-drawn cultivator. |
Written by Claudia Reinhardt.
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Controlling
Weeds
