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   to young turkeys. Dandelion, chicken weed and dockens are boiled and given as food to pigs. Forans are sometimes given to sows. Water-cress is eaten by a lot of people as food. Long ago there were no herbs used for dying purposes or for poison and no herbs are used now for dying purposes or for poison. Herbs were used to cure some diseases and other herbs were used to help people to get better.

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2. Herbs

   

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   The most harmful weeds growing on my farm are:- dockens, thistles, presach, chicken weed, crow-foot, nettles, black heads, lambsquarter, white root, blind nettle and rattler. Thistles are harmful because they spread rapidly and impoverishes the soil. Dockens spread rapidly and impoverish the soil. Chicken weed and crow-foot are harmful because they spread rapidly.
   Presach, thistles and dockens grow in rich land. Blind nettles.

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