US3296A

US3296A - Improvement in modes of destroying cocoa-grass

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Publication number: US3296A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1843-10-09
Anticipated expiration: 1860-10-09

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY B. KENNE OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MODES CF DESTROYING COCOA-GRASS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,296, dated October 9, 1843.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BOLLINGER KENNER, ot' the citv of New Orleans, Louisiana, have discovered a new and useful Plan or a Method of Destroying the Uocoa-Grass-a grass well known by that name, which has caused many plantations in this State and in other States and Territories of the United States to be mere bog or waste land, untillable or unproductive of anything valuable.

I propose to reclaim and enrich and enliven these waste and injured lands, plantations, or parts of plantations by destroying the cocoagrass, and in the process of destroying.

The nature of my discovery and plan orv method of destroying the cocoa-grass consists in using as agents tor that purpose the Palma-(lhristi nuts, (from which castor-oil is produced,) the hemp, and the Jamestown-weed seeds in the following manner, to wit: Plow the ground, which is seeded or set with the cocoa-grass, close, deep, and turn it well over early in the year, and after the disappearance offrostsay between the middle of March and the middle of April-sow in broadcast or close drills and harrow in the Palma-Uhristi nuts, so as to have a stand of at least one stalk to every twelve or eighteen inches square of ground, orso as to have the plants close enough to completely shade or cover the ground from the sun. On the spring following the same process must be repeated; or, instead thereof, it would be as good or a better plan to let the stalks stand through the winter with a sufficient quantity of nuts on them for a second crop, and about the disappearance of frost beat down stalks and nuts and plough them into the ground. About the same time in the third spring or year one of the foregoing processes must be repeated, and to which should be added a sowing of the hemp and Jamestown weed seeds in sufficient quantities to make a tolerably dense stand ofthe hemp and Jamestown weeds. I11 each year or season the plants should be left to grow until frost, as nature dlrects. These processes will effectually destroy every sprig and nut of the cocoagrass, and very essentially manure or enrich and enliven the soil.

1 would particularly call attention to the using of the Palma-Ohristi nuts, hemp, and Jamestown-weed seeds on lands seeded or set with cocoa-grass, whether the farmers be sowing or planting in spring or any other season of the year, by means of plowing, spading, or otherwise.

That which I claim as my discovery, for which I desire to have Letters Patent, is

The use or application of the Pallna-Ohristi nuts, the hem p,an(l the Jamestown-weed seeds on or to lands, for the purpose of. destroying the cocoa-grass therein.

H. B. KENNER.

Witnesses! VINoEN'r GA LAWAY, J OHN VALENTINE, q RICHARD VALENTINE.