Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Patricia M Ronning

Gregg A Vandesteeg

Louis A Errede

Compositions, devices, and methods are disclosed for controlling insect activity wherein an insect control agent is self-adhered to a rough-surfaced fiber. Preferably the fiber is a graft polymer of cellulose and an ethylenically unsaturated material copolymerizable with cellulose. The invention provides extended control of insect activity.

Insect control device

Compositions, devices, and methods for extended control of insect

Herbicidal compositions containing broadleaf foliar herbicide and condensate of about 2 to 40 moles of ethylene oxide with one mole of a C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty acid, C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty amine, C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty amide, or C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty alcohol.

Compositions containing surfactant and broadleaf foliar herbicide

Tobacco desuckering compositions containing mefluidide or maleic hydrazide, and condensate of about 2 to 40 moles of ethylene oxide with one mole of a C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty acid, C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty amine, C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty amide, or C.sub.12-18 unsaturated fatty alcohol.

Compositions for tobacco sucker growth control

A plant nourishment delivery device having a variable flux capability and comprising a water-permeable membrane having a conditioned flux capability in the range of about 0.005 to 10 cubic centimeters per minute per square centimeter at an applied hydrostatic pressure of about 1 atmosphere, and an exaltation of said conditioned flux capability in the range of about 30% to 10,000%.

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Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Patricia M Ronning