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...helped develop it. A very dilute dose (one pound of the chemical to 75 gallons of water), when sprayed on the leaves, kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does not corrode sprayers or reduce the fertility of the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The War Against Weeds | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Historians | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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