A presente pesquisa foi conduzida através de dois ensaios com os herbicidas trifluralin, nitralin e EPTC em duas doses cada, procurando-se verificar o controle das plantas daninhas, observar os possíveis efeitos fitotóxicos à cultura após reaplicação no mesmo ano agrícola e determinar os possíveis resíduos no solo, no início do ano agrícola seguinte, que pudessem afe tar culturas rensiveis. O desenvolvimento da cultura foi observado por meio de pesos de matéria seca de folhas, caules e vagens, durante o ciclo, obtendo -se, também, a produção de vagens no fim do ciclo. A determinação dos possíveis residuos no solo, foi realizada através de bio-ensaios de radículas e caulículos, utilizando-se o sorgo (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.) como planta teste. Houve um bom controle das plantas daninhas pelos herbicidas utilizados. A tiririca (Cyperus rotundus L.) só foi controlada pelo EPTC. O picão-preto (Bidenspilosa L.) e a guanxuma (Sida spp.) não foram controlados. Nenhum dos herbicidas apresentou fitotoxicidade à planta de feijão, mesmo após reaplicação no mesmo ano agrícola, e não foram constatados resíduos no ano agrícola seguinte no solo, após a reaplicação no ano agrícola anterior.

The present research was conducted in two assays, with the herbicides trifluralin, nitralin and EPTC in two dosi, to verify the weed control, to observe the possible phytotoxicity effects on the crop after re-application in the same agricultural year, and to determine the possible residues in the soil, in the beginning of the next agricultural year, that might affect suceptible subsequent crops. The determination of possible residues in the soil was made by root and shoot bioassays using the sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L . ) Moench. ) as test plant. There was a good control of weeds by the herbic ides. The purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus L.) was controlled only by EPTC. Spanish needles (Bidenspilosa L. ) and broom weed (Sida spp) were not controlled by the herbicides. None of herbicides presented phytotoxic it y effects to the bean crops even after re-applications in the same agricultural year, and residues were not found in the next agricultural year, after re-application in the prior year.

This paper deals with data obtained in 1963, 1964, 1965 e 1966 in shaded and unshaded coffee plots at Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. The results can be summarized as follows: a. the production, in shaded and unshaded plots, did not show differences statisticaly significant; b. the percentage of coffee berry borer infestations was higher in shaded plots as compared with unshaded ones; c. the percentage of green, ripened and dry fruits depends on the year and on the harvest time.

This paper deals with data obtained in 1961 and 1962 in shaded and unshaded coffee plots at Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. The results can be summarized as follows: a - the production, in shaded and unshaded plots, did not show differences statistically significant; b - the percentage of coffee berry borer infestation was higher in shaded plots as compared with unshaded ones; c - coffee fruits brought from the field in the harvest time yielding up in sunshaded plots as compared with shaded ones.

This paper deals with data obtained in 1959 and 1960 in shaded and unshaded coffee plots at Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. The results can be summarized as follows: a) the production, in shaded and unshaded plots, did not show differences statisticaly significant; b) the percentage of coffee berry borer infestation was higher in shaded plots as compared with unshaded ones; c) the percentage of green, ripened and dry fruits depends of the year and of the harvest time. In the same harvest time, both for shaded and for unshaded plots the percentages in the shaded plots were higher for green fruits and lesser for ripened and dry fruits; d) coffee fruits brought from the field in the harvest time yielding up in unshaded plots as compared with shaded ones; e) the relation grains/dry fruits was better in shaded plots.

This paper deals with different types of fertilizer applications in coffee hill in the moment of transfering the plants to the field. During the first year, irrigation was applied in the dry season. After one year, the following characters were analised: plant height; plant diameter; number of productive branches; lenght and number of nodes in the first branch of the plant. The results obtained can be summarized as follows: the irrigation employed did not affect the treatments and mineral fertilizers combined with organic fertilizer were better than the others treatments used for comparisons.

The present paper discusses the data obtained in shade and unshaded coffee plots at Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. The results, analysed statistically, can be summarized as follows: a) unshaded plots produced 17% more than shaded ones; b) the percentage of coffee berry borer infestation was higher in shaded plots as compared with unshaded ones; c) the percentage of green (not ripened fruits) depends of the harvest time. When the harvest was retarded, the percentage of green fruits was higher in the shaded plots. When the percentage of green fruits was the same, both in shaded and unshaded plots, the percentage of ripened was higher and the percentage of dried fruits was lesser in the shaded plots as compared with unshaded ones; d) other comparisons as production of dried grains by the field fruits, relation between dried fruits and dried grains and cup-test by expert coffee-taster, did not show differences among shaded and unshaded plots.