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Design factors and operational requirements of irrigating burley tobacco
… and operational requirements for irrigating burley tobacco was conducted on a system of irrigation control plots located on the Smithfield farm of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Nitrogen fertilization, nitrogen and nicotine content of burley tobacco
… and nicotine contents of leaves and stalks of Burley 21. Rates of nitrogen used were 0, 75, 150 and 225 pounds per acre. Nitrogen was applied as preplant and/or as post plant applications. The maximum rate of growth and nitrogen uptake occurred during the month prior to topping. During the …
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Interactions of nitrogen, chlorine, and sulfate in the growth of burley tobacco
… growth, chemical composition, and quality of the Burley 21 variety of tobacco. Rates of nitrogen applied were 75, 150, 225, and 300 pounds per acre. The muriate and sulfate sources of potash were combined on a equivalent basis in the following proportions: 100 SO₄/0 Cl, 75 SO₄ /25 Cl, 50 SO₄ /50 …
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Grading and Pricing Burley Tobacco: The Effect of Light Intensity and Other Factors
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:48:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6206141.pdf: 9600160 bytes, checksum: 02b206b6ad47771ecfd042e3c3017659 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Field studies on the ringspot disease of Burley tobacco in Washington County, Virginia
1. Steam sterilization of the tobacco plant bed did not control ringspot. 2. The virus was not transmitted from diseased to healthy plants by the common tobacco flea beetle (Epitrix parvula) although they lived and multiplied on tobacco plants within the cages. 3. The cucumber flea beetle (Epitrix …
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The Burley Tobacco Buyout Program and Its Impact on Farmers in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina.
<p>This thesis addresses the Burley Tobacco Buyout Program and its impact on three local economies. Data collection involved obtaining information from government reports, internet sources, public documents, agriculture offices, federal agriculture officials, and books. Personal interviews were …
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Surface and groundwater quality impacts of conservation tillage practices on burley tobacco production systems in Southwest Virginia
… tillage (ST), and no-till (NT) treatments in a burley tobacco production system. The field experiment results show that the CT treatment yielded more total runoff, 93.6 mm, than ST and NT. Compared to the CT treatment, ST reduced the total mass loss of NO₃⁻ by 37 percent, NH₃ by 54 percent, …
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Time of application and rate of depletion of sprinkler irrigation water for selected crops
… was greater for alfalfa than for corn, wheat or burley tobacco; therefore the peak use frequency was less for alfalfa than for the other crops. 4. Burley tobacco appeared to be more sensitive to excess water than either wheat or alfalfa.
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Efficacy of Herbicide Combination on Burley and Dark-Air Cured Tobacco
The efficacy of herbicide combination on burley and dark air-cured tobacco Nictotiana tabacum were tested in field research plots in the summer of 2000 at Western Kentucky University's Agricultural Research and Education Complex. The randomized complete block design contained six treatments …
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Inoculum densities of Thielaviopsis basicola in tobacco fields in Virginia, and the relationship of inoculum density to the severity of black root rot and growth of tobacco
… basicola, cause of black root rot of tobacco, from soil. TB-CEN medium contains etridiazol and nystatin to inhibit the growth of undesired fungi, and unautoclaved extract from carrot to selectively enhance for the growth of T. basicola. Inoculum and/or population densities of T. …
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The effects of various wage rates on farm organization and structure in Southwest Virginia: a study minimizing average outlay when obtaining specified income levels
… open land in order to obtain additional tobacco acreage and other cropland, than to utilize large amounts of existing unused pasture. An increase in hired labor wage rates, when an individual farm is achieving a specified income, may result in the hiring of additional labor, however, …
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Relationships between seedbed preparation and growth of corn and tobacco plants
… and tillage by plowing with respect to yield of tobacco and corn plants and to compare uptake of P by corn plants from surface and mixed applications of superphosphate. A further aim was to determine the relationship between P uptake by oat plants and inorganic P fractions of three Virginia soils …