16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13. 1961
jlaaiwuisljnG ALFALFA FIELDS FOB WEEVIL Thursday are left to right, George
Berggren., extension agronomist, Ben Landis, Pa.adxse Ri custom i-Piay operator, and
John O Pepper, extension entomologist. Very little weevil damage was found in fields
where dieldrm was used last fall In this field near Paradise the alfalfa was nearly—l 3
inches tall and was pushing buds near the crown. When these buds develop, following
crops will not be damaged by harvesting the alfalia, Pepper said L 1 Photo
• Spray Program -
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now be killed by the appli
cation of three quarts of
Methoxychlor (25 per cent
wettable powder) in 20 gal
lons or more of ‘water per
acre -
George Berggren, Exten
sion Agronomist, m com
menting on the weed prob
lem m some new stands of
alfalfa suggested that new
seedmgs with large amounts
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of Shepard’s purse or wild Many alfalfa fields are ma
rutabaga or mustard in the ture enough to prevent any
crop should be chopped for damage to later crops if
silage as soon as the crop is harvested in the next week,
ready. _ but for the good of later cut
tings, new seedings should
Some of the weeds are de- h e harvested before ten
veloped enough to mature p ercen t of the crop has blos
their seeds from the juice in some d
their stems if the crop is
mowed and dried for hay Pepper said farmers with
Putting the crop through the weevil problems have two
silo will kill most of the choices They can spray now
weed seed and help control and wait seven days before
the crop next year. harvest, or they can harvest
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ns soon as possible arid spray Unless there are chang,
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i n the second crop. * tions, the-spray program ( 0
| If the crop is harvested "alfalfa is likely to be abou
' ad the stubble sprayed, the the same this year as i, s
! ate of application should be year, Pepper said.
' at back front three, to two applied in the fall has glVe
uarts of Methoxychlor per very good control in
icre. • county, he,added
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