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Chemical Weed Killing

Chemical weeding is no longer a questionable practice. Now that cheap, safe and effective techniques have been devised, it is standard procedure in many nurseries. Some people claim that chemical weeding is one of the most important advances that have been made in the tree-planting program for many years. The vast nurseries that now exist in some states and which produce such scores of millions of trees so cheaply would be impossible if they had to be hand-weeded -- the neighborhoods would not be able to supply sufficient labor to keep up with the problem, and the cost of the young trees would be so great that many people would not plant their idle land. But the millennium has not been reached and even though satisfactory techniques have been worked out in places there is still much to learn. Many-nurserymen are constantly trying out new materials and would like to know what is available for trial. Additional articles on this and related.


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Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 4 (1951)