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Copper Carbonate--Boon or Bane?

Copper carbonate, a chemical frequently used to repel rabbits from outplanted southern pine seedlings, appears to have caused high seedling mortality in north Mississippi. In a recent test of rodent repellents, loblolly seedlings treated at the nursery with copper carbonate and then baled and shipped to the planting site suffered considerably more first-year mortality than did untreated seedlings. Independent survival counts of copper-treated seedlings planted elsewhere in north Mississippi also showed above normal mortality.


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Author(s): Russell M. Burns

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 40 (1960)