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Treating maize seed and cowpea seed with activated carbon or naphthalic anhydride permitted highly selective and economic early control of grasses and some broadleaved weeds with respectively EPTC and linuron and EPTC and chloramben. Without protectant every herbicide treatment produced less crop yield than with protectant. Early season control of grasses with herbicides followed by one row-cultivation controlled weeds throughout the crop.
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