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How to Know When to use Organic, Natural or Chemicals In and Around the House
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When I was a kid during Saturday lawn chores you’d hear my dad yell “Get me the Chlordane,” or “Someone didn’t put the “Paraquat away,” and “Go to the hardware store and buy some sodium methyldithiocarbamate (actually he said Vapam).” These are either hardcore insect sprays, weed killers and soil fumigants that have been taken off the market for years. And, let’s not forget the neighbors used to lend this stuff to each other over the fence while eating a sandwich. Today it’s a different story. Insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, molluscicides and all the “cides” are ever changing in this...
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3 Simple Steps to Cleaning a Pump Sprayer - by Nick Federoff
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Did you know that many things gardening typically begins on the farm? Farmers are usually the trailblazers in bringing products we use for our garden to the consumer marketplace. Or, at the very least inspiring the inventors of the world to make something better and easier to use. For instance, in the 1850’s an insect called the Colorado Beetle was devastating the potato industry. A gravity fed leather knapsack, (think of a bota bag backpack on steroids – which probably leaked all over you), oozed a chemical solution out of a sprinkler head as the farmer painstakingly walked every inch...
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Acreage Life: June 2022
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Sprayers are essential tools for completing various tasks around your land and home, and Chapin Professional Farm & Field Sprayers help you get the job done. This Chapin Proseries Sprayer line includes our 21240XP, (2 gallon), and 21250XP, (3 gallon), hand compression tank sprayers. These sprayers are easy to use and designed for application of weed and pest control products, fungicides and fertilizers. Translucent poly tanks allow monitoring of fluid levels and wide 4 inch openings make them easy to fill. Brass extension wands, brass shut-offs, brass nozzles, fluoropolymer elastomer seals, and reinforced hoses will hold up to...
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Acreage Life: April 2022
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Backpack sprayers are great tools for fertilizing your garden and landscape, and controlling weeds and pests. The Chapin 63950 Mixes on Exit (MOE) Backpack Sprayer makes your work even easier. The MOE Clean Tank Spraying system automatically adds concentrate as you spray, with mixing ratios ranging from 1 to 10 ounces per gallon. Separate water and concentrate tanks make it easy to switch chemicals as needed. Clean-up is a breeze since the main tank stays clean and any remaining concentrate can be stored in the separate smaller tank. The two tank system also reduces waste of chemicals. The...
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Chapin Featured on Man vs. Yard
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Featured on Man vs. Yard Chapin's Mixes on Exit system Take the "praying" out of spraying. While traditional lawn and garden sprayers require you to premix your chemicals, there's no need with the Mixes on Exit (MOE) backpack and ATV sprayer. MOE takes the guesswork out of mixed because you full, set and spray. TV Schedule June 12 KYTV - Springfield, MO @ 11 a.m. June 12 WRDW - Augusta, GA @ 12 p.m. June 26 WRDW - Augusta, GA @ 12:30 p.m. July 16 KPTV - Portland, OR @ 3.30 p.m. August 6 KPTV - Portland, OR @ 2 p.m. TV...
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