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Show Esteron 44 Results In Wild Onion Curbs Wild Garlic also Found Vulnerable to Solution Wild garlic and wild onion long have been two of the most troublesome trouble-some weeds In southern lawns, pastures pas-tures and certified grass and grain 'seed production fields. As lawn weeds, these plants give the lawn an uneven, ragged appearance appear-ance and produce a very disagreeable disagree-able onion odor when mowed. In pastures, dairy cattle feeding on these plants produce milk with an off flavor which is of great concern to dairymen in several states. Seed production has been limited by the presence of wild onions in many fields because of potential contain- ination. During the past three years many experiments have been made with varied forms of 2, 4-D to control wild garlic and wild onion. Tests with sodium salt of 2, 4-D were unsuccessful. un-successful. Esteron 44 and ths amine liquid salt formations, however, how-ever, gave good control when used at the rate of three to four pounds of 2, 4-D acid equivalent per acre. Apparently the amount of water used makes little difference in the results obtained. As many as 129 gallons per acre and a few as five gallons per acre were applied with equal success. For pasture work, observers agree that Esteron 44 may be somewhat some-what more effective than the amine salts, but because of the possible danger from volatility of the esters of 2, 4-D, it is suggested that the amine liquid salt be used where susceptible plants grow in immediately immedi-ately adjacent areas. (Lawns, for example, with adjacent flowers and shrubs). |