California Agriculture Online
California Agriculture Home  >   Volume 10   >   Number 2  >   Viewing HTML w/Links

research article

DDT residues on sweet corn: Kernels and cob of corn treated with DDT remain practically free of residues but amounts on plant restrict use as fodder

authors

Oscar G. Bacon, University of California
Wallace R. Erwin, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 10(2):11-12. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v010n02p11. February 1956.

author affiliations

Oscar G. Bacon is Assistant Professor of Entomology, University of California, Davis. Wallace R. Erwin is Principal Laboratory Technician, University of California, Berkeley.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Technical DDT at the rate of 4.5 to 12 pounds an acre—depending upon the method and number of applications—is applied to most of California's commercial sweet corn acreage to control the corn earworm.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1275-F.

Determinations of DDT residue on corn were made at Riverside by L. D. Anderson, Entomologist, and F. A. Gunther, Associate Insect Toxicologist, University of California.

The investigations with DDT on alfalfa hay were conducted by Ray F. Smith, Associate Professor of Entomology, and W. M. Hoskins, Professor of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley; and O. H. Fullmer, formerly Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley.

The studies with pea vine silage were made by H. F. Wilson, Professor of Economic Entomology; N. N. Allen, Professor of Dairy Husbandry; G. Bohstedt, Professor of Animal Husbandry; J. Betheil, Graduate Assistant in Biochemistry; and H. A. Lardy, Assistant Professor in Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin.


  • Search Article Text 1946 to Present
Advanced Search