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A Laboratory Sprayer for Potted Plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

L. F. Bouse
Affiliation:
Agricultural Engineering Research Division and Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
R. W. Bovey
Affiliation:
Agricultural Engineering Research Division and Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Abstract

A laboratory sprayer, designed to make herbicide applications to potted plants and to study spray distribution patterns with different nozzles, is described. An activated charcoal air filter was installed to minimize herbicide contamination to adjoining greenhouse-laboratory facilities during the spraying operation.

Type
Brief Papers
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 Weed Science Society of America 

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