Show I TOWN HELPS KEEP UP WARFARE ON WEEDS Allowed to Grow Grow Until Until They Seed They Become a Menace to Whole Community Weeds growing on vacant lots throughout a city arc are a menace to the home gardener in J. J European cities such a condition Is not permitted Property owners are forced to keep the weeds out Weeds should be cut at least before going to seed eed This cutting will prevent prevent pre pre- vent the seed from ripening and spreading into adjacent gardens After the weeds have been cut and dried they should he be burned to to destroy the seed and prevent a n new crop from developing the next season Many of ot our common weeds are are- annuals an nn such as ns the time wild flax pigweed horse or butter weed ragweed milkweed milkweed milkweed milk milk- weed mustard and sand burs Th They y reproduce themselves each ench year from seE seed d only Thus If they are destroyed before the they go to seed there will be beno beno beno no seed from which they can can develop the following year ye in the garden these weeds can be pulled up by the roots cut off oil with a hoe hot or turned up by by- hanf cultivation The burdock and wild carrot which thrive In nearly all parts of the city cUy are biennials They develop a thickened thick thick- thickened ened or fleshy root during the first year rear and produce the seed during the second year rear Because bf of the fleshy root the plant cannot be killed by cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting off oft the top It will Ill prevent pre the development of seer but In order to kill the plant It must be grubbed out root and nil all The surest way tray Is to cut off oil the crown Just below face face- of the ground and cut them as soon as they appear because the older older older old old- er and stronger they grow the greater Is their resisting power power Chicago Chicago Dally Daily News |