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USDA Warns That Farmers Will Have Hard Fight Ahead To Destroy Weeds In 1981
Farmers and weed
scientists alike have been
battling this perennial weed
for years with only
moderate success.
But 1981 may be the worst
year on record, if most weed
seeds left in the soil this
year germinate. In
Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas, fields with
serious johnsongrass
populations may have
doubled, because of last
season’s summer-long
drought, warns C. D. Mc-
Whorter, Southern Weed
Science Laboratory
(USDA), Stoneville, MS. He
claims dry weather hurt
herbicide activity. Mc-
Whorter checks over 100,000
acres in these states an
nually for johnsongrass. In
1980, 60-63 per cent of
GRASS ALERT Watch out for johnsongrass this season.
Scientists at USDA’s Southern Weed Science Laboratory,
Stoneville, MS., predict more johnsongrass than ever in
soybean fields. The grassy pest spreads by seed and un
derground rhizomes that can grow a foot per month in tilled
soils.
Bunch Taken In Death
Mrs. Bertha Mae Bunch
Hammond, 51, 320 West
Queen Street, died Friday at
her home. She formerly
worked at Edenton Cotton
Mills.
Mrs. Hammond was a
native of Chowan County.
She was bom April 20, 1930,
daughter of Mrs. Addie
Holmes Bunch of Edenton
and the late Joseph Z.
Bunch.
She was married to Adney
Hammond.
In addition to her mother
and husband, surviving is a
son, David J. Mizelle of
Wilmington; two daughters:
Mrs. Ruth Ann Beaman of
Greenville; and Judy Kay
Mizelle of Edenton; a
brother, Zane Bunch of
Edenton; a sister, Mrs.
Faye Harrell of Edenton;
and three grandchildren.
She was a member of
Immanuel Baptist Church.
Funeral services were
held at 3 P. M. Sunday in
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MidSouth soybean fields he
monitored suffered some
losses.
Although in Mississippi
the grassy weed is generally
accepted as a statewide
pest, he adds, it’s heaviest in
the northern counties and
inside river bottoms.
McWhorter wouldn’t get
an argument from one
Mississippi farmer. Ham
Bishop, a Minter City
soybean grower, usually
finds thick johnsongrass
stands on half his 600
soybean acres each season,
despite repeated
dinitroaniline (Treflan,
Prowl) treatments. For the
past two years (one season
under an experimental use
permit), Bishop has been
spraying 3M’s Vistar
Herbicide to catch john-
Chapel. Rev. Ashby
Browder officiated and
burial was in Beaver Hill
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Mark,
Robert and Roland Harrell;
Richard Head, Richard
Holstead, and Mark
Glasglow.
Sea East Cites
CIA Failure
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formation” campaigns
which “befuddle the minds
of many journalists,
academic experts and even
some CIA analysts,” and on
“liberals and the far left”
who ‘ ‘often refused to look at
the evidence” for Soviet
supported terrorist activity.
“The Soviets and their
terrorist surrogates admit
that they support terrorism;
they simply do not call it by
that name,” East said. “The
Soviets describe many of the
terrorist movements that
they support as ‘national
liberation movements’ and
regard them as
‘progressive.’
“Unfortunately, some
who have been critical of the
Administration’s counter
terrorist policy have failed
to understand this trick of
language,” he said.
songrass escapes. Under
good moisture conditions, he
rates Vistar Herbicide
control at 80-90 per cent.
In Missouri, the seven
county Bootheel section has
the state’s highest levels of
johnsongrass, with some
infested counties along the
Missouri river. These low
lying, poorly drained river
bottoms are ideal for weed
proliferation. In addition,
flooding every seven or
eight years re-infests land
where johnsongrass might
have been controlled. Ac
cording to Dr. Harold Kerr,
Extension weed control
specialist, University of
Missouri, Colombia some
50,000 acres suffer serious
yield reductions, primarily
in southeastern counties;
other johnsongrass
problems in the state are
spotty. That represents a
fair portion of state soybean
and only one-fourth of the
farmers there are doing
something about it, he ob
serves.
Persistent johnsongrass is
a headache in Tennessee,
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but {H'etty much limited to
the West and Middle two
thirds of the state. In fact,
johnsongrass levels in corn
almost put state farmers out
of business before
Eradicane came along,
recalls Wayne Flinchum,
Extension soybean
specialist at UT’s Jackson
experiment station.
“Right now most growers
are using double rates of
dinitroanilines and coming
back with postemergency
herbicides,” adds Flin
chum. There’s one thing
they aren’t doing, however,
he says. “They aren’t using
a total management con
cept,” Flinchum points out;
“by that I mean using the
correct tillage methods, like
cutting up johnsongrass
rhizomes.” Flinchum
estimates that john
songrass, left untreated, can
cause 40 to 50 per cent
soybean losses.
Kentucky’s johnsongrass
prospers in its western
counties, but has been
pushing into the state’s
central river bottoms. Out of
• a total soybean crop of half
m>Uion acres, nearly 40 per
cent of affected, making it
the state’s number one weed
enemy.
“We’ve done tests with
postemergence herbicides
on johnsongrass, says Bill
Witt, University of Ken
tucky weed control
specialist,” and found that
with no control yields
dropped from 35 to 20
bushels, a 43 per cent
reduction. On some fields
johnsongrass simply takes
over. It can become a total
loss situation.”
He says the most control
methods call for a 2x
Treflan application on a
three-year basis and spot
salvage treatments with
Roundup.
“Also, we now have an
earlier post-spray with
Vistar Herbicide,” Witt
adds. The 3M herbicide is an
over-the-top treatment
before johnsongrass is
headed out.
In the Southeast, john
songrass losses are scat
tered. For North and South
Carolina, the perennial
weed pest is located
primarily in the coastal
plains and Piedmont. In
South Carolina, it’s believed
to hurt soybean production
on 75,000 acres, with
reductions ranging from 25
Death Claims Mrs. Wheeler, Va. Native
Mrs. Dena Gay Wheeler,
77, died at Elder Lodge on
Paradise Road on June 13.
She was retired from
Edenton Cotton Mills.
Mrs. Wheeler, the widow
of Fred Wheeler, was born
in Brunswick County, Va.,
on June 22,1903. She was the
daughter of the late Riley
and Josie Bly Gay.
Surviving is a son, Mit
chell Ward of Clarksville,
Tenn.; two daughters: Mrs.
Peggy Forehand of Eden
ton; and Mrs. Mary Nixon of
Greensboro; a sister, Mrs.
Lillie Wheeler of Edenton;
11 grandchildren and one
great - grandchild.
Funeral services were
held at 4 P. M. Tuesdav in
th^Williford-Barhani
to 50 per cent -a higher
figure than North Carolina.
Other Atlantic coast states,
like Virginia and Maryland,
with less than a half-million
soybean acres apiece,
report up to 15 per cent of
their total crop injured.
Funeral Chapel. Rev. E. C. Pallbearers were:
Alexander and Rev. Preston Thomas and Wilbert Harris
Cayton officiated. Burial Fred Ashley, Ed Owens’
was in Beaver Hill Sam Sawyer and Rav
Cemetery. Bateman.
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Thursday, June 18, 1981 -
Increasingly, as pre-plant
applications fail for a
variety of reasons (weather,
poor incorporation), more
farmers are relying on
postemergency herbicides
for grass breakthroughs,
say weed scientists.
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