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Test of Soil Fumigants in Louisiana

This paper summarizes a pilot study with four promising nematocides and multipurpose soil fumigants in a Louisiana Forestry Commission nursery. Objectives were to devise an economical way to control root diseases and weeds that were seriously curtailing nursery production and reducing the size and quality of nursery stock, and to determine the optimum density of slash pine seedlings in the fumigated beds. Each fumigant was evaluated as to its effect on nematode populations, weeds, hand weeding costs, root rots, production of plantable seedlings, and field survival of outplanted stock.


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Author(s): Eugene Shoulders, John P. Hollis, R. G. Merrifield, Eugene E. Turner, A. F. Verrall

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 73 (1965)