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Show TOWN FATHERS PUSH WEED ERADICATION PROGRAM Milford is to be a Mecca for hay-fever sufferers this fall, during the normal hay fever season, it was revealed today ulien the Town Hoard acted upon earlier approval of a suggestion sug-gestion to spray all vacant lots, city parks, and other weed-infested weed-infested property with a newly-developed chemical weed kill-1 ing agency to assure a weedless community. . I recent news story issued by the manufacturers of the chemical (0 be used, gives interesting in-i in-i 'ormation as to its uses and results. The story follows: DEADLY BUT GREEN GRASS GROWS ALL AROUND s Visitors to various city parks, suburbs and rural sections through out the country have wondered at tl,e spruced-up appearance of lawns this year. Responsible is a nely war-borne chemical hormone known as 2. -4D, recently converted convert-ed to postwar use for killing obnoxious ob-noxious weeds in lawns, parks and golf fairways. So the old back-breaking, hand-pulling hand-pulling method of spot-weeding is on the way out, now that entire areas are being weeded merely by spraying. The age-old laments of lawn tenders are undoubtedly being be-ing replaced with, "What a difference differ-ence a spray makes," since approximately ap-proximately 1600 square feet of lawn can be treated for $1 in a matte; of minutes. Experiments conducted by Sher-u-in- Williams scientists during their development of Weed-No-Jlore have proved that although the new lethal liquid kills most weeds, it won't harm common lawn grasses. Permanent destruction of perennials has also been accomplished accom-plished through the--method. Sections Sec-tions of large dandelion fields treated with the chemical in 1945 were not only freed of all dandelions dande-lions for the season, but were devoid de-void of any signs of them this spring, although the usual dense growth of the perennial reappeared on all sides. The new discovery will also kill ragweed, responsible for about 90 per cent of the nation's hayfever. Dr. Gaylord Anderson, University of Minnesota School of Public Health director, stated: "The preparation prep-aration of 2, 4-D offers more promising prom-ising means of attack upon ragweed rag-weed than does WPA relief projects. proj-ects. For the first time, there is an effective liquid weapon in reducing re-ducing -human suffering and disability dis-ability from the disease." And this is nothing to sneeze at. |