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Site Treatments Have Little Effect During Wet Season in Texas

Benefits from preplanting site preparation and later cultivation were not significant in a Texas test that encountered a better than average growing season. Survival and growth were relatively good, even on untreated check areas. In east Texas (the western edge of the southern pine belt). thousands of acres of abandoned farmlands are planted to loblolly pine each year. Droughts of more than 30 days are frequent in normal growing seasons and poor plantation survival has been the rule rather than the exception. In exploratory small-plot tests, removal of competing weeds had materially improved seedling survival during drought


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Author(s): John J. Stransky

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 36 (1959)