Green-Up, Dead Nettle, and the Urging of Meadowlarks

Reckoning with the barrier between farming and ecology

One of many fields currently springing up in dead nettle or henbit or both. Sandhill Township, Scotland County, Missouri

THIS notorious and celebrated corn-thief, the long reputed plunderer and pest of our honest and laborious farmers, now presents himself before us, with his copartner in iniquity, to receive the character due for their very active and d…