Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1920 — Earthworms in Lawns. [ARTICLE]

Earthworms in Lawns.

Earthworms in lawns and gardens can be poisoned with bichloride of •nercury poison. Make a stock solution by dissolving one ounce in two gallons of water. To use, dilute two quarts of the stock solution in 50 gallons of water and in the evening sprinkle this over about a thousand square feet of lawn. The ground should be moist when this is done. The worms will come out during the night and will never go back. Bichloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate) is a deadly poison and therefore mufljt.be used carefully. 1 -