Bulletin published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture with information furnished by the Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service. Contents include tips on buying herbicides, treating infestations, and cleaning sprayers. There is a list of herbicides' common names with their chemical names. The pamphlet also includes a table rating the effectiveness of four herbicides on a variety of common lawn weeds.

Includes ten illustrations of widespread or difficult to identify lawn weeds drawn by Regina O. Hughes (1895-1993). Hughes was an American scientific illustrator working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a botanical illustrator and later served as resident illustrator for the Smithsonian Institute. Hughes became deaf as a child and attended the Gallaudet College for the Deaf in Washington, D.C., earning a degree in 1918.