This study, therefore, makes no attempt to engage in current debates within the field of cultural theory out of the belief that to do so would be both premature and contrary to the goal of making the history of weeds and weed control on the Prairies accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. [...] Chambers and Mingay argue that a revolution in British agriculture occurred between 1750 and 1880 as a result of the "classical enclosure movement" of the late 1700s and the sub- sequent reorganization and enlargement of production units.1 Kerridge, in contrast, identifies the agricultural revolution as the period between the mid-sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries and he contends that it inv [...] One of the many causes of this high degree of variation is the type of crop grown and the farming practices that favour both the crop and its associated weeds.26 Unravelling the genetic and cultural connections between specific weeds and crops is a twentieth-century phenomenon but a basic understanding of the rela- tionship has been part of British weed lore since at least the time of Fitzherbert. [...] The 25 population of this once abundant British weed has declined dramatically over the last century — a decline that can be directly correlated to reduc- tions in the acreage devoted to wheat through much of this period and to the growing popularity of herbicides since the close of the Second World War. [...] These include incorporating manures and crop stubble, converting pasture into arable, preparing the soil for seeding, drainage, and last but not least, it kills the Weeds by turning up of the Roots to the Sun and Air, and Kills not only the Weeds that grow with the last Corn; but wild Oats, Darnel, and other Weeds, that sow themselves, and that as soon as they begin to peep out of the Ground, so t
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Introduction 10
- 1 Weeds and Culture 20
- What is a Weed? 21
- A Short History of Definitions 27
- Weeds and Culture 33
- 2 Good Husbandry and the Relationship Between People and Weeds in Great Britain, 1500–1900 38
- Weeds and Reformers 40
- Conflict 45
- Further Thoughts on Weeds 56
- Conclusion 66
- 3 From Colony to Nation: The Transformation of Immigrant Culture in Ontario, 1800–1867 72
- The "Rough Era," 1800–1865 73
- Explaining Cultural Change 87
- Conclusion 92
- 4 Dominion of the West, 1867–1905 96
- Weeds and Weed Experts in Ontario, 1867–1900 97
- A Colony of Ontario 105
- Shaping a Western Identity 111
- Conclusion 124
- 5 War on the Western Front, 1906–1945 128
- Allies to the South 130
- War-time Regulation, Bureaucracy, and Troop Education 141
- In the Trenches 154
- Conclusion 166
- 6 The Bomb and Aftermath 170
- Herbicide Development and Use in Western Canada to 1945 171
- 2,4-D and the Dawning of the "Hormone Era," 1945–1950 177
- Fallout 184
- Conclusion 193
- Conclusion 198
- Appendix 1 The 1865 Canada Thistle Act of Upper Canada 210
- Appendix 2 Line Drawings of the Leading Cast of Weeds 214
- Appendix 3 Colour Plates 226
- Notes 234
- Bibliography 282
- Index 306
- A 306
- B 307
- C 308
- D 311
- E 312
- F 313
- G 314
- H 314
- I 316
- J 317
- K 317
- L 317
- M 318
- N 319
- O 320
- P 320
- Q 322
- R 322
- S 323
- T 324
- U 325
- V 325
- W 326
- Y 328
- Z 328
