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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1960)
. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Thursday, March 10, i960 B I: Ragweed Control Urged to Relieve Hay Fever Victims! Denver, Colo., (Science! ServiceMYaging an organized wesd trol program every yegr $ help a community rid itael f ragweed pollen, Vhich responsible for the ration's li,000,000 to 12,000, 000 hay fever sufferers. e A few years of weed con trol would be all that would be necessary to reduce the . growth of ragweed to a min imum, Charles N. Howison, executive secretary of the Air Pollution Control League of Greater , Cincinnati, told the Weed Society of America meeting here. Preventable Disease Hay fever caused by rag weed pollen pollution of the air, he said, is a preventable man-made disease of nation wide importance. Together with asthma it is the third j most common chronic disease in the country, preceded only by the heart disease and can cer, and is the one disease that can be traced to an air pollutant. Ragweed is an annual and grows in every state. One plant can pollute the air with from five to eight billion pol len granules. One acre of ragweed fills the air with 50 to 60 pounds of pollen a season. One "square mile lib ' erates 16 tons of pollen. Ragweed will not seed if destroyed "before it flowers, Howison reported. Every plant destroyed before it blos soms reduces the volume of pollen pollution of the air. Control Methods Known Fortunately, he said, meth ods for the control of the plant are well known. Herbi cides such as 2,4-D and others are available, effective, safe, easy and economical to apply. Tests have shown that the toxicity of the pollen, as well as its volume, is greatly re duced the farther away it gets from the plant. Thus the clser the sufferer to the plant, the more irritating its pollen. Cutting or destroying rag weed with chemicals during the growing season limits the source of fresh pollen and re duces the amount of fresh pollen that can reach the suf 4 f erer and cause irritation. Every community, Howison said, can be made safer, healthier and more beautiful by waging an effective weed control program annually. Hay fever victims as well as everybody else will benefit by the eradication of this air pollutant, he said. Scotsmen Asked to Give Away Money Edinburgh. Scotland- (UPD - A brave group here is asking Scotsmen to give away money. An appeal has gone out to Scotsmen all over the world to unfasten grips on a few pennies to help make sure sgeryo bonny twist of ' the thickest burr in England is preserved for future genera tions. The Scottish Dictionaries Joint Council, representing four Scottish universities and several other groups, has ap pealed for funds to complete two monumental dictionaries of the Scots tongue, past and present. One, the Dictionary of the 01der Scottish Tongue, is a 42-volume work providing an o exhaustive record of the na tional and literary language of Scotland up to the year 1700. 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