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18—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1977
Weed and no-till meeting on
The annual meeting of the
Maryland Crop Im
provement Association will
get under way at 9:45 a.m. in
the Grand Ballroom Lounge
of the Student Union building
on the University of
Maryland campus at College
Park. Morning program
speakers will include Peter
B. Ramaley, executive
secretary of die Maryland
Agricultural Commission,
headquartered at Annapolis,
and Dr. James R. Miller,
agronomy department
chairman at the University
of Maryland in College Park.
At the close of the morning
session, awards will be
presented to the winners in
the statewide corn and
soybean yield contests, and
this year’s recipient of the
Distinguished Maryland
Agronomist award plaque
will be announced.
Lunch is scheduled in the
Black and White room of the
Student Union. The af
ternoon program will consist
of tours of Maryland state
Department of Agriculture
facilities located on the
College Park campus.
NORTHEASTERN WEED
SCIENCE SOCIETY
Theme for this year’s
annual meeting of the
Northeastern Weed Science
Society is “Agriculture - The
No. 1 Industry.” The three
day event will get under way
at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday
(Jan. 4) in the Francis Scott
Key ballroom at the
Baltimore Hilton hotel.
One of four major
speakers at the first day’s
forenoon general session will
be Dr. John M. Curtis,
director of the statewide
Cooperative Extension
Service of the University of
Maryland at College Park
and Princess Anne. His topic
will be “U.S. Agriculture -
Its Impact Nationally and
Throughout the World.”
Thomas M. Fisher, sales
manager for Ag-Chem, Inc.,
at Girdletree, Md. (Wor
cester county), will be
moderator for a Tuesday
afternoon workshop
discussion on weed control in
various tillage systems. And
Frank J. Webb, Extension
agronomist for the
University of Delaware
substation at Georgetown,
Del., will moderate a
Wednesday afternoon (Jan.
5) workshop session on ef
fective weed control in
soybeans.
A Thursday morning (Jan.
6) workshop session will be
devoted to weed control in
nursery or ornamental
crops. A myriad of technical
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papers will be presented at
concurrent sessions during
other portions of the three
day meeting. Several of
these papers are being given
by research workers from
the University of Maryland.
Dr. James V. Parochetti,
Extension agronomist at the
University of Maryland in
College Park, is secretary
treasurer of the Nor
theastern Weed Science
Society. Vice-president and
president-elect is Dr. C.
Edward Beste, Extension
weed specialist at the
University of Maryland’s
vegetable research farm
near Salisbury (Wicomico
county), on the lower
Eastern Shore.
MARYLAND PLANT
RESEARCH
APPROPRIATE'
to the SEASON
The Christmas season is a
time when researchers at the
Maryland .Agricultural
Experiment Station begin
looking for new prizes or
discoveries among the many
ezperiemnts they have in-
greenhouse flower
crops.
Much of the work during
this season deals with
poinsettias, flowers on the
Christmas list of many
people. Dr. Conrad B. Link,
research horticulturist at the
University of Maryland in
College Park, has devoted
some 20 years to the study of
greenhouse crops in
Maryland.
“Much of our breeding
work deals with testing the
lasting quality of various
flowers, including the
poinsettia. By lasting or
keeping quality I mean, can
a person buy a poinsettia or
other flower from a com
mercial outlet and expect the
-flower or plant to last a long
time under normal home
conditions?”
Included in the varieties
being tested at the
University of Maryland are
commercial varieties that
are being offered for sale in
Maryland. Comparisons are
made between the new
plants on the market and
some of the standard kinds
that have been around
awhile, as well as new
selections taken from the
university breeding
program.
According to Dr. Link,
much of the research at this
time of year deals with the
use of growth regulators on
flowering plants. These
chemicals are used to in
fluence the habit or rate of
growth.
For example, one of the
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experiments being con
ducted at Maryland is using
growth regulators on
poinsettias to induce
branching so the flowers can
be used in hanging baskets.
These flowers can also be
branched by mechanical
means such as topping the
plant or.pinching, but growth
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