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Boom and broadcast sprayers: Comparative field and laboratory study of spray distribution as applied by two types of sprayers on spotted alfalfa aphid

authors

Jack E. Dibble, University of California
R. G. Curley, University of California
N. B. Akesson, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 12(1):6-10. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v012n01p6. January 1958.

author affiliations

Jack E. Dibble is Extension Field Technologist in Entomology, University of California, Berkeley. R. G. Curley is Extension Specialist in Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis. N. B. Akesson is Associate Professor of Agricultural Engineering, University of California. Davis.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

At approximately the same time that maximum control of the spotted alfalfa aphid—Therioaphis maculata (Buckton)—became of great importance, a new boomless sprayer for broadcasting insecticides became popular in some areas.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Extension Field Technologist Project of 1955-56 and Agricultural Engineering Research Project No. 1046.

W. R. Sallee, Farm Advisor, Tulare County, University of California, and V. E. Burton, Farm Advisor, Kern County, University of California, assisted in the experiments reported above.


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