WAR AGAINST RAGWORT
SODIUM CHLORATE CHEAPEST
The Director of the Fields Division reports that several new specifics were tried experimentally during 1933 for the chemical control of noxious weeds, but generally proved useless for the purpose, says the Journal of Agriculture.
Several further tests were made with sodium chlorate, and these showed that sodium chlorate is still the most efficacious and cheapest for the treatment of ragwort. Occysol was further tested and gave very good results at a strength of 5 per cent. Calcium chlorate at the same strength gave about an 80 per cent, kill.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 20, 19 February 1934, Page 8 (Supplement)
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96WAR AGAINST RAGWORT Franklin Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 20, 19 February 1934, Page 8 (Supplement)
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