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Experiences in Using Allyl Alcohol for Weed Control

We treated a few acres both seasons using 15 gallons of alcohol and 5, 000 gallons water per acre. The alcohol is diluted with 4 parts of water and metered into the suction side of our portable sprinkler-type irrigation system. A decrease in weed population was secured both seasons, although most effective results were had this spring. I attribute greater effectiveness in the spring to the fact that our beds were worked repeatedly during the early winter and spring until May when the alcohol was applied. Thus we believe that many of the more resistant seeds had germinated and were destroyed by cultivation prior to the alcohol application.


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Author(s): Hugh Steavenson

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 12 (1952)