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Show Government Will Test Value of "Paper Mulch" Government plant experts are engaged en-gaged in a thorough test of the "paper mulch" which has been used experimentally experi-mentally in some locations with a considerable con-siderable degree of success. The paper pa-per mulch was first suggested by a Hawaiian pineapple grower, who covered cov-ered the ground with an Impregnated paper which permitted the shoots to find their way through but entirely suppressed the weeds that usually grew between the plants and which sapped the ground of its vitailty. In this instance it was a great success as well as on some small truck patches where the experiment has been tried in different parts of the country. The government experts, however, will not make an official report on the subject until they have tried it out thoroughly and have conducted experiments with the different kinds of paper which have been offered as suitable. |