TWO USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 769, 18 March 1910, Page 8

TWO USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

WEED ERApiCATION.-FOOTKOT.

A correspondent has forwarded us the two -'/following, suggestions, which , some readers wilivnd doubt find useful:—'- '

i. Arsenic—Riding .about .the , place one.' now and then' conies, across a plant or small patch of ragwort, horohound, daisy, or some such abomination, and registers a dutiful vow to "return a|nd deal with it. We. all know the .results. Nowadays I carry in my right-hand watch-pocket, Carefully wrapped up, a flat tobacco box -full'■ of 'arsenic-'•',•'.Cutting.,.off •■ -the plant level with the ground, J! dip the point of my knife into the arsenic and place some on the stump. That settles things. Again, a solution of. arsenic, one pound, ditto caustic soda, and ten gallons of •water boiled up, will clear your, walks of weeds, leaving the surface undisturbed: ',:,: is none so far, but grass -is- plentiful, so when I dip my ~ewes :bef6re;.turning in the rams, I propose'that every sheep shall walk through a trough on leaving the dipping pens. Cost and trouble infinitesimal, and it may prevent what is hard ,to cure. About May I shall trough them again, whether or no, and here is a wrinkle: The trough placed m a race means rushing, splasl-lng,-and constant filling. /My trough :■ eight by.four,,fits: the, a'leyVin: the died'. Sheep arp drjyen'tip"one:'side! and walk sedately.- down; the • alley,.- :thrte : abreast. ?? °!> d 'down with laths on the floor of the trough prevent slipping, and there you are.