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Silviculture Sets The Scene For The Next Softwood Forest Stand
Maxwell L. McCormack, Jr.
Silviculture Sets The Scene For The Next Softwood Forest Stand
Maxwell L. McCormack, Jr.
Simazine enhances balsam fir growth but contributes to deer damage
Since the beginning of plantation production of balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) for Christmas trees, researchers and growers have sought to improve ...
Maxwell L. McCormack, Jr. and Ronald H. Morgan
Simazine May Stunt Young European Larch
Growth of young European larch (Larix decidua Mill.), weeded with the herbicide simazine 80W, was measured in a plantation near La Crosse, Wis. This ...
M. Dean Knighton
Simazine no Substitute for Cultivation in Hybrid Poplar Plantations
Successful establishment of hybrid poplar plantations from dormant cuttings requires adequate site preparation and subsequent grass and weed control, at least ...
David W. Sowers and Frank E. Cunningham
Simazine Weed Control
Reducing weed control costs is a challenge for tree nurserymen. Even today a certain amount of hand weeding is still required. However, hand labor must be ...
William G. Poulsen
Simple and Inexpensive Method for Extracting Wood Density Samples From Tropical Hardwoods
John K. Francis
A simple catalytic analysis to detect the effects of eradicant treatments on nursery soils
The rate of oxygen release, as a result of adding hydrogen peroxide, can indicate the level of live micro-organisms in a soil.
B. E. Wilson, Jaya G. Iyer and John E. Borkenhagen
A Simple Cone-Measuring Device
Quick and accurate measurement of the thousands of Douglas-fir cones collected for a study in correlation of size of trees, cones, and seeds necessitated the ...
Lloyd Graham and Richard K. Hermann
A Simple Device for Making Paper Pots
A simple hand-operated machine for making pots from common roofing paper was devised at the U. S. Southern Great Plains Field Station in 1936. Its principal ...
E. W. Johnson
A Simple Device for Sowing Experimental Seed Lots at Uniform Spacing
Uniform spacing of seed in a seedbed is important in many forest research projects. When using large numbers of seeds, the sowing operation can be ...
R. L. Schmidt
A Simple Guide to Understanding Fertilizers
Commercial fertilizer is identified by means of a numerical formula (as 5-10-5) which tells how much of each of the three principal plant nutrients it ...
Charles C. Mony
A Simple Method for Determining a Partial Soil Water Retention Curve
Nursery managers can develop their own partial soil water retention curves. Developing these curves can provide nursery managers with a ...
William A. Retzlaff and David B. South
A Simple Method for Evaluating Whole-Plant Cold Hardiness
Whole-plant assessment is direct, requires a minimum of equipment and expertise, and provides a good approximation of actual cold hardiness. Potted test ...
Richard W. Tinus and W. J. Rietveld
A Simple Method for Temporary Cone Storage
A simple method for field storage of bagged cones using pallets and 2 by 4's is described.
Daniel R. Anderson
Simple Method of Recording Seedbed Treatments
Nurserymen in the South generally have difficulty in maintaining a suitable record of seedbed treatments. Usually, these are kept in diary form for the ...
Floyd M. Cossitt
A Simple Method to Evaluate Whole Plant Cold Hardiness
Whole plant assessment is direct, requires a minimum of equipment and expertise, and provides a good approximation of actual cold hardiness.
W. J. Rietveld and Richard W. Tinus
A Simple Method to Evaluate Whole Plant Cold Hardiness
Whole plant assessment is direct, requires a minimum of equipment and expertise, and provides a good approximation of actual cold hardiness. Potted test ...
Richard W. Tinus and W. J. Rietveld
© Simple sequence repeat markers from Cercis canadensis show wide cross-species transfer and use in genetic studies
Simple Solutions: Ergonomics for Farm Workers
A. Steege, C. F. Estill, N. Lalich and S. Baron
Simple Tool for Plantng Acorns
A handy, inexpensive tool for planting acorns has been developed at the Delta Research Center of the Southern Forest Experiment Station and used successfully ...
William R. Beaufait
A Simple Transplanting Board
Though it may seem late to make any basic changes in a tool as simple as a trans-planting board, we believe we have a change worth reporting. Instead of ...
John H. Grimm and John W. Duffield
Simple Weeding Cart Increases Hand-Weeding Efficiency
Nurserymen, at some point in each growing season, have always had to resort to some hand weeding regardless of their chemical herbicide schedule. This is ...
Robert L. Evans and Kurtz C. Swartz
Simplified form for Instructions Needed to Accompany Tree Shipments
A mimeographed instruction sheet as shown below accompanies all stock shipments from this nursery. It is the simplest, fastest way we could devise to give the ...
Charles C. Mony
A Simplified Germination Test for American Sycamore
As recently as 1951 Putnam (3 p. 37) stated that no seed of bottom land hardwood tree species would germinate under water. A year earlier Baker (1, p.237) had ...
Adrian P. DuBarry, Jr. and Charles B. Briscoe
Simplified Hand Weeding Tool
The Ward weeder is a weeding tool that has proved most effective. It is made in the nursery shop from a 6-inch length of 1/2-inch thin-walled conduit. A ...
Homer Ward
Simplified Tree Inventory Counting Frame
An open-end counting frame has been devised at the Saratoga State Tree Nursery. Heretofore, a similar frame has been used to define the sample area for taking ...
Everett J. Eliason
A Simplified Way to Store and Stratify Tulip Poplar Seed
In the fall of 1967, we had a large amount of tulip poplar seed left over from a bumper crop that year. This seed was successfully stored and stratified on ...
John Alpar
A Simply Made Cover for Seedbeds
An easy and efficient method of shading seedbeds has been developed at the Tropical Forestry Project in Fort Myers, Fla. This method may prove useful at other ...
Elbert A. Schory, Sr.
Simulation Model for Slash Pine Seed Orchards
Carl W. Fatzinger and Wayne N. Dixon