The Times

How more than 850,000 lawn owners have licked their crabgrass problems with Halts®

Introduced by Scotts in the late fall of 1958, Halts has worked wonders—even in hardest hit areas. You apply it before crabgrass sprouts. "WE HAD exceptional results with Halts in our back yard last year," writes a lady in St. Louis. "It even convinced my skeptical husband." "Halts did a wonderful job for me on a particularly stubborn crabgrass-covered front lawn," reports L. J. of Cranston, Rhode Island. We get letters like these every day of the year, from grateful people who have finally discovered the way to keep crabgrass from ruining their lawns. The way is astonishingly simple. It takes less than half an hour for the average lawn. Yet it gives results that no amount of hard work could equal. Halts is an invisible barrier Each summer crabgrass comes up, chokes out good grass—then re-seeds itself and dies. Halts stops this vicious cycle. It creates a barrier on the soil's surface that prevents crabgrass seeds from coming up. With the accurate Scotts Spreader, you quickly blanket the entire lawn with tiny Halts granules. Each particle is more than a match for the wiliest crabgrass plant. Halts lies in wait, then strikes as crabgrass sprouts. Halts also destroys grubs, drives moles and skunks away. When is the right time to apply Halts? The earlier the better. A good time is the first nice afternoon. "I used Halts..." "Early in the spring I used Halts which I found very effective except for the rows that I missed with the spreader," writes a lawn owner in Winchester, Virginia. (Scotts summer crabgrass control, Clout®, makes short work of such occasional escapees.) "Last spring when I used Halts," reports Mr. W. G. of Albany, N. Y., "I got the horse laugh from a lot of people who said there wasn't anything that would prevent crabgrass. But now they see and agree that Halts can do it. My neighbors' lawns are infested with crabgrass and on my side, there is not one single plant!" Halts doesn't harm grass Halts is death to crabgrass, yet it has the unique ability to let good grass sprout unharmed. Think what that means. You can sow Scotts seed (and give it the balanced Turf Builder® feeding it needs) on the very same day you apply Halts. No danger to the seed. And no delay in seeding. This is a good example of the way Scotts research has created products that work together—in a program—to make a better lawn simple and sure. INTRODUCTORY OFFER SAVE $5.00 when you buy Halts and the Scotts Spreader together With crabgrass under control, this can easily be the best year ever for your lawn. Your nearest Scotts Program dealer now offers a free LAWN PROGRAM GUIDE that tells exactly what to do and when to do it. Pick up your copy today. Scotts FIRST IN LAWNS © 1961 O M SCOTT & SONS • SEEDSMEN SINCE 1870 • MARYSVILLE, OHIO