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Potato yield can be better by spraying and dusting
Irish potato growers boosted income by as much as 37.50 per acre through spraying and dusting this year. Chemicals including Parzate Dithane Z 78 and copper compounds were used. DDT dust aided beetle control. Edley Daigle yielded 4950 lb per acre on sprayed plots versus 3520 on unsprayed, a net gain of 37.30. Horace and Peter Caro also saw gains from spraying. Some farmers combined DDT with fungicides to fight blight and insects. unsprayed plots yielded 6700 lb per acre for comparison.
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Edley Daigle
Bayou Blue
Horace
Peter Caro
Nick Bergeron
Joe Thibodaux
St. Charles