Popular Science Monthly 



81 



A garden in which nothing but weeds can find a place. It is the one spot in all the world, perhaps, 

 where weeding means cultivation of weeds. Later on, various exterminators will be tried on them 



A Garden in Which Weeds Are Not 

 Only Tolerated but Cultivated 



" |_r*OR every evil under the sun there is a 

 3P remedy or there is none," says the 

 jingling rhymster, and leaves it to the 

 scientist to find out whether there is or not. 

 To find the remedy for weeds, the bugbear 

 of every farmer and lover of growing things, 

 a garden was planted at the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station of the University of 

 Minnesota and 175 different varieties of the 

 pests were given honorable lodg- 

 ment in the perfectly good 

 soil. They grew. 

 They thrived 

 They bore abun- 

 dant seed. 

 They were 

 classi f ied 

 and a collec- 

 tion of weed 

 seeds was 

 produced 

 and listed. 

 Then repel- 

 lents and ex- 

 terminators 

 were tried 

 out on them. 



Film comedy has its queer moments, such as traveling in 

 freak equipages and make-up in search of suitable landscape 



Taking Motion Pictures on the 

 Road in a Queer Vehicle 



THE motion picture director is a 

 creature of weird fancies. If he were 

 otherwise he would not be a motion picture 

 director. He lies awake nights worrying 

 about ways for. doing something different. 

 If he becomes hum-drum, if his ideas 

 smack of the commonplace, his directorship 

 is soon ended. 



The quest for novelty partly explains the 

 freakish caravan on rubber 

 tires which the accom- 

 panying photograph 

 shows. The pur- 

 pose of the queer 

 equipage is 

 serious. It 

 is seeking 

 the right 

 landscape 

 for a back- 

 ground for a 

 special com- 

 edy, and is 

 transporting 

 the camera 

 and troop to 

 the spot. 



