WEEDS AND OTHER PESTS 



171 VEN if you paid a thousand dollars 

 ^"^ a bushel for your grass seed, and 

 then spent as much more on the prepara- 

 tion of your land, you could not, I am 

 sorry to say, escape having weeds. 



The thing to do when you have them is 

 to get rid of them, and this is accom- 

 plished only by getting right after them 

 with a persistence proportionate to the 

 abundance of the weeds. The knife is 

 the only real weapon for this. After dig- 

 ging out your weeds, sow in grass seed 

 with the idea of making the grass grow so 

 thick that there will be no place for the 

 weeds to creep in. Dandelions and plan- 

 tains are simple matters that can be 



handled easily, but where Crab Grass 

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