Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/866/en

In sugar and fodder beet cultivation and in field vegetable growing, refined mechanical methods are available — alongside pre-emergence flame weeding — that leave only an extremely narrow band along the drill rows untouched. Despite all good preparatory work, however, a residual hand-weeding is unavoidable. This work belongs to the few tasks still left to the farmer and gardener in which he can enter into direct relationship with soil and plants in a twofold sense: on the one side, he is laboriously and hands-on given over to an activity that goes all the more easily and swiftly the more one sets oneself aside and turns with a testing gaze toward the plants that are to be freed,

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