Thurlow, You mentioned cockleburr. This made me think of my Iowa days in the early 1950s when dad bought a "Bare 80"(80A without bldgs) and it was infested with cockleburr. He decided I and my brother could help him go in the soybeans in July/August when the beans and cockleburrs were big and bushy and chop out those cockleburrs (we used a corn knife). Then he wanted us to drag them to the ends and pile them up so he could burn them later. It was a very hot and sticky job. We thought he was a sadist.
To add insult to injury, for whatever reason he delayed the burning, then hired a guy to combine the beans and the combine did a wonderful job of scattering cockleburr seeds everywhere.
I still have a special hate for cockleburrs. And when I look at the corn knife I have on the wall in my shed, those memories give me the shivers. LA in WI
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