Show tl ERADICATE CROP OF QUACK CRASS GRASS Courage Determination and Attention At At- to Detail Make the thel l Outcome Certain i ROTATION FOR LARGE AREAS ro and Should Be Plowed In to Fall and andt t Double Disked Disked at Once Lengthwise of Furrows Some Furrows Some Hand Work Ie May Be Necessary Quack grass can enn be killed out com com- without losing a crop saysA says A. A I 1 Arny assistant agriculturist at th thit the College of ot Agriculture To it re such a result however the grown must be such as ns to admit 1 tops OPS I 4 i I Disking risking Corn Stubble to Kill Out Quack Grass it f a a. thorough clean clean up up of ot the fields very iery tw two or three years jears Courage to too toD o D the work fork a determination to win nd ad attention to detail make the out out- ome me certain For the For the Small Spot For Tor spots not more than three for lor our rods square three plans plans plans' may be showed followed 1 I. Cut the quack grass as clo close e tobe to tobe be ground as ns practicable cover the wats its and the ground two Yo or three feet fee yond rond them in all nil directions with tar per iper lapping the paper about four tour fourches iches ches and weighting it down wl with 1 tones ODes or soIL Leave the papera paper Q a eight or ten weeks This method most effective when w 1 n. n started from May hay 1 to August 1 L 4 2 2 Keep the spots thoroughly cultivated f ted or hoed up to the latter part of pf May day and then plant corn or late cab cab- ge Keep these plats clean of quack quackS s S- S 3 Apply sodium arsenate eight ands dissolved In 20 gallons of Waey wa- wa ey to each square rod of Infested soil l t i ThIs to will kill the the quack grass grass and nu all aU aller other her er plants This treatment leaves t I the e soli soil sterile for some time after after- rd Sodium arsenate Is a deadly poison n and the greatest care should be In its use I For the Larger Area For larger areas a It rotation must be bed d that gives gl chance for an exceed- exceed 1 thorough up clean-up often enough to l keep the quack grass from recover- recover lug fog to IA four year tour year rotation of ot grain clover wn corn rn and corn meets this demand In slowing following such a rotation the area areas s nd uld be plowed as early as possible fo to the fall five or six Inches deep and be double disked at once lengthwise the furrows If th the quack pass shows growth afterward the should be continued through fj the h e fall faiL in the spring or cul- cul ration atlon should be continued often o ten nugh to keep the quack grass from owing green above the ground until nt 1 planting D time Usually the renewing re re- r awing Of the field just before t thee te e. e planting of the corn com should be b resorted resort resort- ed to Corns Corn should be checked and checked and cultivated often enough to keep it clean Hand nand work may maybe be necessary to get all nil the quack grass out of ot the hills As soon as as the corn crop is of off In the fall the land should be plowed and aud A acre 40 field divided Into four equal parts tw two of which are In corn one due ne in gr grain ln and the other In clover clover can be handled In this way by one man with one team Quack grass grass cannot stand up against this kind of f treatment nt |