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From: thom@ewj01.UUCP (Thom Leonard)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: salt as sterilizing agent
Message-ID: <197@ewj01.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 16:43:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 16:43:17 1985
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Organization: East West Journal, Brookline, Mass.
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> ROUNDUP does work vry well as described.  ORTHO sells it by
> the name of CLEANUP or is it spelled KLEENUP.  Generally, ROUNDUP
> is meant to be sole to farmers in the larger amounts.  As I recall
> a quart of ROUNDUP costs around $30 and
> you use one part to 50 parts water.

Maybe someone out there with a background in organic chem. can fill us
in on this, but an item in *Acres USA*, 5 October, '85, (10008 60th Terrace,
Kansas City, MO 64133) warns against letting Roundup come into contact
with "nitrates contained in substances such as nitrogen fertilizer."  According
to the item, the combination can result in a reaction which produces "deadly
compounds that have been linked to genetic diseases and cancer."  A little
vague for my liking, but still enough to keep me from using Roundup on the same lawn that
I'd fertilized with fertilome or any of its cousins.
 
Thom Leonard, East West Journal, Brookline, MA