TOBACCO (PLANT BEDS) 



Preplanting . - -For control of most broadleaved weeds and annual grasses in 

 tobacco plant beds: 1 pound of commercial urea and 1/2 pound of calcium 

 cyanamide or 1 to 1 - 1/ 2 pounds of calciunn cyanamide per square yard, or 1 

 pound of methyl bromide per 100 square feet of plant bed area. Applications 

 of commercial urea-cyanamide or cyanamide alone should be made in October 

 in the mid-Atlantic States and thoroughly mixed in the upper 3 inches of soil 

 by disking and raking. Methyl bromide is a volatile soil fumigant, and the plant 

 bed must be covered with a gastight cover for the chemical to be effective. 

 Methyl bromide may be used in the spring w^ithout residual toxicity to tobacco 

 plants. 



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