

roots would fail to get sufficient air. Most of the 
trees that die in this area die from _ insufficient 
watering, then too, a few die because there is no 
windbreak. 
Spraying 
Most of the spraying done is useless, except for 
the water it contains. 
When evergreens get full of spiders, give the 
trees a heavy sprinkling and they will take care of 
themselves until they are dry again. Then sprinkle 
again until spiders are few and far between. 
When ash trees get full of borers, give them 
plenty of water for three or four years and they 
will whip the borers. Many other trees will do the 
same. 
When cucumber bugs eat the plants, the soil 
has insufficient lime and perhaps water. If these 
are provided, cucumbers grow well, especially in 
well manured ground. 
Many plants; such as, cabbage, cauliflower, broc- 
coli, lettuce, celery, peas, beets, cherries, plums, 
etc., like lime. Elm, linden, and other plants like 
small amounts of it, although it will kill blueberries 
and make acid loving plants look sick. 
Strawberry plants like lots of water and phos- 
phates; nearly all trees and plants like small 
amounts of it. 
Our soil here is rich in potash but sometimes 
bulbs respond to feeding extra potash. 
The plants that do not respond to lime often 
like sulphur. 
Experiments on Bindweed 
In 1944 I plowed up bindweed on four plots of 
land where the bindweed was thick and used four 
methods of cultivation to keep it down. 
Plot I. I planted nothing, but hoed it every 
eight days in the growing season. The crowns were 
perhaps one-fourth smaller, but there seemed to 
be as many. 
Plot II. I planted in strawberries and soaked 
well every four days. Results were about 98% kill, 
those remaining were all in the strawberry hills. 
These were also hoed every eight days. 
Plot III. I ploanted in sweet corn and irrigated 
when needed and hoed every eight days. By August, 
1944 I had a perfect kill. 
Plot IV. This plot I had hoed and watered 
irregularly. The results were best when hoed while 
wet. Perhaps this indicates wounds bleed when wet. 
My conclusions were that moisture, shade, and 
hoeing can kill them in six months, but that hoeing 
while wet is very effective. 
