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The Design and Evaluation of a Small-Plot Sprayer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

S. K. Ries  and
C. W. Terry
S. K. Ries
Affiliation:
Department of Vegetable Crops, Cornell University
C. W. Terry
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Cornell University
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The research worker who attempts the application of herbicides to a small area in such a way as to simulate general practice, is faced with a unique problem. The ultimate objective is to apply the chemical to as small an area as is feasible but in such a way that it will correctly represent what the activity on both weeds and crop plants would have been had the application been made on an acreage basis. Small plots are desirable if land or labor are limited, if expensive crops in farmers’ fields are being used, and particularly when the chemicals may be highly toxic, or the activity is unknown.

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Weeds , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , January 1952 , pp. 160 - 173
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Copyright © 1952 Weed Science Society of America 

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