MH-30 Increases Yield
Tobacco Growers Told
The use of MH-30 to inhibit the growth of tobacco
suckers increased the yield in every case, a tobacco re
searcher told growers last Friday night.
Speaking to over 40 tobac- erably in the county. Some
co growers at the stockhold- companies say it makes no
ers’ meeting of the Lancaster difference to their processing
County Tobacco Growers while other companies have
Cooperative Assn., T. R. Ter- saidthe spray will ruin the
rill, director of the Southeast crop. “It seems to be a mat-
Pennsylvania Field Research ter of management both on
Laboratory, said experiments the farm and in the factory.”
had shown increased yields Terrill said,
and less shed burn wiih the At present chemical tests
use of the chemical as com- 33 we y comparison tests
pared with hand suckering- c f cigars made,from treated TRY NEW FLOWERS
Terrill said trials on the leaf are being carried out by New 1961 All-America
research laboratory farm four large companies. Mean- winners are ‘Gloriosa’
near Landisville- showed an while, farm use of the chan- double daisy, ‘Rosie O’Day’
average- of 330 pounds in- ical has increased each year sweet a lyssum and ‘Coral Sa
crea_e in yield when MH-30 since 1957. tin’ petunia. They provide a
was used. Conclusions from the tests, glorious border planting by
In amount of shed burn Terrill said, indicated, vari- themselves, says Mrs. Lynn
based on a scale of one to etal differences in shed burn B. Smith, extension floricul
five (with five representing damage. Varieties did differ Jurist, and to be sure you
severe damage) -tobacco in damage, he said, but shed have some in your garden
treated with the chemical burn does not appear to be this year, she suggests order
showed an average of 2.2 associated with the close ing seeds early from any re
while hand suckered crops growing crops. liable seed firm or dealer,
were damaged to the extent
of 2.7 The difference of 0.5,
while seemingly small would
represent a significant differ
ence of 10 percent in the a
mount of damage to the
crop
In the trials, four varieties
of tobacco were topped at
bud stage and at 80 percent
bloom. In each case the
tobacco was sprayed or suck
ered five days after topping
Previous experiments, Ter
rill said, have shown that
spraying at five days after
topping causes less change
in the leaf than application
of the spray before or at top
ping time
Tobacco was topped at
three different heights in the
experiment. In only one case
was there more shed burn in
the sprayed crop. When the
crop was topped at 80 per
cent of bloom and at a height
of 20 leaves per stalk, the
hand suckered plot showed
2 3 on the shed burn rating
chart as compared to 2.6 for
the treated plot.
On the 192 plots, 96 hand
suckered and 96 sprayed
with MH-30, the average
yield was 1,988 pounds - per
ache for hand suckered and
2,318 pounds per acre for the
sprayed crop.
When tobacco was topped
in the bud stage, spraying
made the greatest difference
in pounds harvested, but not
the highest total pounds.
Highest total pounds was
realized from tobacco topped
at 80 percent of bloom and
at a height of 20 leaves, but
very little difference in the
weight between sprayed and
hand suckered crops was no
ted Heights of topping rang
ed all the way from eight
leaves at bud stage to the 20
leaf height.
Terrill said acceptance of
the treated leaf varies consid
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