Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-grxwn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-25T23:10:21.507Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Flute-feed Applicator for Granular Herbicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

S. W. Bingham
S. W. Bingham*
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg
Get access

Abstract

A grass seed attachment to a grain drill was modified to apply granular herbicides using positive metering mechanism. Uniformity of granule output was adjusted within ± 4% maximum error. Speed of travel did not appreciably affect the amount of granules applied per acre.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weeds , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1964 , pp. 58 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 Weed Science Society of America 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Literature Cited

1. Bainer, L., Kepner, R. A., and Barger, E. L. 1955. Principles of farm machinery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.Google Scholar
2. Lovely, W. G., Cox, H. C., and Brinkley, T. A. 1956. Application equipment for granulated insecticides. J. Econ. Entomol. 49:839–846.Google Scholar