The Ottawa Free Trader

Scarcity of Weeds.-It has been frequently remarked the present season by residents of the West, that the nauscous, rank and annoying weeds that generally spring up over the entire face of nature, where there is soil enough for the deposit of the smallest seed, are very few and far between. The growing crops have been but slightly disturbed by these intruders, and in many places, ploughing boys are felicitating themselves upon a total exemption from ploughing corn. The cause of this somewhat remarkable and blessed riddance is the protracted drought of last summer, which, while killing the grain did not spare the weeds, drying them up before they went to seed. So there must be one favorable mark placed to the account of last year's drought.-Boston Courier.