Quinaldine sulfate (QdSO4), an improved formulation of the fish anesthetic qualidine, was tested for its efficacy on 15 species of freshwater fish. The new crystalline formulation is water soluble and thus easier to use than is practical grade quinaldine. QdSO4 anesthetizes most salmonids at 25 mg/l in less than 4 minutes and the fish recover in 1 to 13 minutes in fresh water. The efficacy of the anesthetic was little affected by water temperature, but the compound lowers the pH of some soft waters to below 6, the point at which it becomes ineffective as an anesthetic. All fish retained some reflex action and thus, some large fish were difficult to handle.

A formulation containing volatile attractants has been developed against pestiferous and disease-carrying flies—such as eye gnats, houseflies, blowflies, and flesh flies. The material, known as UC fly attractant, or Lursect, when mixed with standard fly killing toxicants, has shown considerable promise for the suppression of pest fly populations. The attractants show greatest activity when the preparation is dispensed on moist soil or other damp substrates. Efficacy is greatest when the production potential of flies is at a low to medium level. The attractant proved far superior to commercial fly baits against centric and pericentric populations of a number of species of synanthropic flies.

During 1968 and 1969 we conducted a study to determine whether the precision of yield estimates could be improved by adjusting plot yields for differences in stand of burley tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Plants were removed from the plots at four different stages of growth and in five different patterns. Both the stage and pattern of plant removal had significant effects on the plot yield of cured tobacco. To derive an adjustment procedure for missing plants, we estimated the amount of compensation resulting from each stage and pattern of plant removal as the difference between the actual yield per plot and the expected yield, assuming no compensation. The proportion of the check plant average compensated for in a given pattern was computed as the ratio of the estimated amount of compensation to the average yield per check plant. A direct adjustment of plot yields to a full stand basis is possible after adding the equivalent number of plants resulting from compensation to the stand count. The efficacy of our procedure was determined by applying it to data from a yield and quality trial that had a poor stand in 1971. Relative efficiencies were 100, 129, 139, and 149 for no adjustment and adjustment by Crew‘s procedure, covariance analysis, and our procedure, respectively. To determine the nature of compensation by plants adjacent to missing plants, we computed standard partial regression coefficients, which were 0.2437 for plant height, 0.0180 for length of leaf, and 0.5972 for width of leaf. Plant height appears to exert a small influence on compensation, but the major influence is apparently the leaf width component of leaf size.