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Show DESTROYING WEEDS IN WALKS There Are Number of Excellent Chemicals Chem-icals or Sprays Which Can Be Used With Good Success. (By JULIUS ERPMAN. Colorado Agricultural Agri-cultural College.) It is rather a tedious process and hard on tools to remove weeds or grass from walks by hoeing or cutting cut-ting them out between the stones, but there are a number of chemicals or Eprays which can be used with good success. 1. Salt Take 1 pound of salt to 1 gallon of water; boil and apply while still hot; or dry salt may be used and then watered in, but this will color the walk more or less, and is not quite so effective. 2. Crude carbolic acid, ounce of the liquid to 1 gallon of water, will also destroy ants. 3. Sulphuric acid, 4-5 ounce of the acid to 1 gallon of water. Best applied ap-plied with a wooden pail. 4. Take 1 pound of powdered arsenic to 3 gallons of cold water; boil and stir well. Then 7 gallons of cold water with 2 pounds of sal soda. 5. Lime and sulphur, 10 gallons of water, 20 pounds of quicklime and 2 pounds of flowers of sulphur are boiled in iron vessel. After settling, the clear part is dipped off and used when needed. There are also a number of commercial com-mercial weed killers in the market which can be bought r.t seed stores. Application of weed destroyers should best be made on a hot day or night after a rain, with watering pot (sprinkler), and one good application is usually sufficient for the season. A3 most of them contain poison, either arsenics or acids, great care should be exercised in handling them. |