NEW ENGLAND FRUIT MEETINGS AND TRADE SHOW 



The New England Fruit Meetings and Trade 

 at the New Hampshire Highway Hotel, Concord, 

 meetings are scheduled for January 10 and 11, 



Show will be he! d 

 lew Hampshire. The 

 1968. 



The hotel is accessible to all major highways. Routes 3 and 

 93, which lead to Concord, are accessible from anywhere in Massa- 

 chusetts. Persons coming from western Massachusetts and southern 

 Vermont may find Routes 9 or 10 to Keene, New Hampshire, and then 

 Routes 9, 202, 89 and 93 to the Highway Hotel most convenient. 



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DICHLOBENIL, A PROMISING HERBICIDE FOR THE ORCHARD 



W.J. Lord and D.A. Marini 

 Extension Pomologist and Regional Agricultural Specialist 



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 hlobenil re- 

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 herbicide was 

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 1965, a study 

 appl i cations 



simazine for 

 ed at the Uni- 

 peach orchard 



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 orchard 

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the time of treatment in November, 1965, the primary weeds 

 stablished sod at the Belchertown orchard were quack grass, 

 grass, sweet vernal grass, red fescue, dandelion and tim- 

 eeds at the Amherst peach orchard, grown under the sod- 

 stem of culture, were primarily quack grass, Kentucky blue- 

 rchard grass, dandelions, yellow foxtail and red sorrel, 

 ey peach orchard was kept under cultivation except for an 

 roximately 12 feet in diameter around the trunk. This area 

 od principally composed of Kentucky bluegrass, orchard 

 uack grass and bentgrass. The broadleaf weeds present in- 

 roadleaf plantain, buckhorn plantain, common chickweed, 

 red clover, curly dock, sorrel and dandelions. 



G simazine and G dichlobenil were applied on 2 dates in Novem- 

 ber, 1965, in each orchard (Table 1). The materials were hand 

 broadcast over a circular area 4 feet in radius from the middle of 



