HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1915 
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For 
Your Lawn’s 
Betterment 
Buy Alphano Humus Now 
A LPHANO HUMUS is nature’s own 
soil builder, because no soil can be 
fertile without Humus. 
It is rich in root feeding foods. Has no odor. 
Highly sanitary. Contains no weed seeds. 
Has great moisture holding power, which forti¬ 
fies your lawn or garden against dry weather. 
Spread on your lawn; rake it in. Effects will be 
immediate. Results will be lasting. 
Mix it with your garden soil; sow it in the drills 
with the seeds;dig it around your plants and shrubs. 
Abolish obnoxious, unsanitary manures. Garden 
with Alphano Humus from start to finish. 
Its low cost makes its liberal use possible. 
For partculars, send for Humus Book. 
Advise about how much ground you want to 
enrich, and we wii suggest amount of Humus 
needed. 
Alphano Humus Co. 
^ 17=E Battery Place 
New York 
4% 
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1915 Catalog 
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about 175 pounds to the acre; or, dissolved, 
three pounds to every 100 gallons of water. 
The dry application should be made always 
before a rainstorm, otherwise much burn¬ 
ing is apt to result to the grass. For an 
occasional application it is all right to use 
this, but for the vear-in-and-year-out fer¬ 
tilizer it should be alternated with other 
things. 
Humus is invaluable for use on lawns 
and golf courses as a top dressing and also 
when it is incorporated into the soil before 
the seeding is done. On clay soils, besides 
being valuable as a plant food, it helps 
greatly in surface drainage, which is, of 
course, absolutely necessary for the de¬ 
velopment of the short-rooted dwarf 
grasses desirable on golf courses. On 
sandy soils, which are usually deficient in 
plant food, it provides a very lasting food 
for the grasses. 
Even if you paid a thousand dollars a 
bushel for your grass seed, and then spent 
as much more on the preparation of your 
land, you could not escape having weeds. 
The thing to do when you have them is 
to get rid of them, and this is accomplished 
only by getting right after them with a per¬ 
sistence proportionate to the abundance of 
the weeds. The knife is the only real 
weapon for this. After digging 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 plantains are simple mat¬ 
ters that can he handled easily, hut where 
crab grass shows up there is work ahead 
to get the best of it. It is a destroyer of 
the first rank, an annual that seeds itself 
each year and kills out under the first 
frost, leaving great, bald spaces in the lawn 
to show where it has been. Even after it 
has been killed by the frost its baneful in¬ 
fluence is not ended, for it has spread 
broadcast its seeds for the next year’s crop. 
When you find it, dig it out. This is the 
only way to conquer it. Set the blades of 
the mower low, and after dragging the 
grass up with a rake, run the machine over 
it: and this should he done early in the 
year, before July. 
On newly-made lawns the weeds are 
easilv removed, and they should be care¬ 
fully watched so as not to allow them to 
get too far ahead, duckweed is almost 
as bad as crab grass, and when you find 
the combination, crab grass and chickweed, 
the simplest solution is to spade or plow 
the place up in the fall and leave it exposed 
for the winter. 
For the broad-leaved varieties of weeds 
there is a preparation of what is called 
sand on the market. Sprinkle it on the 
weeds, and within an hour afterwards they 
have shriveled and turned black. 
Very often earthworms become disfig¬ 
uring on a grass plot. Where there are 
many present it is an indication that the 
earth is in poor condition, compacted, and 
needing humus. An application of strong 
lime water will drive many to the surface, 
where they can he swept up; or a heavy 
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