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Im having a dinner on October 18th....approx 25 people,a celebration dinner for my 13 yr old who is making Confirmation. There will be 20 Adults,my 4 children & my 2 year old niece. While pondering what to serve I thought a theme dinner would be nice. Im thinking of Southern style food, but I only tried cheddar grits for the first time last month (might I add i LOVE THEM!!!) I make a great rib but Im stumped i even thought of that Cajun Shrimp over grits. Id like to serve a couple of dishes not just one...Please help. TIA PS Im open to another theme if someone thinks of a better idea.
Shrimp and Grits would be a great dish to serve and definitely something very different! If your dinner is in the evening I would recommend any of the following be added to the menu:
Shrimp and Grits (recipe link follows)
Louisiana BBQ Shrimp and Baked Cheese Grits Casserole (Cindy's shrimp recipe) with French bread to sop up the shrimp marinade
24 Hour Salad
Woodie's Green Beans with Hazelnuts
Fruit salad of pineapple, citrus fruits and coconut
Corn Muffins and Sally Lunn bread
Special Cake to mark the occasion or trays of small desserts: Pecan Tassies, Chess tarts - plain, lemon, and chocolate, Petit Fours, Pound Cake slices, Chocolate Cake Squares (Tex Mex style with a dash of cinnamon)
Here is a link that might be useful: Bill Neal's Shrimp and Grits recipe
I have had this saved for a long time to make. Paula Deen's Jambalaya
Jambalaya Mix, recipe follows
2 1/2 cups water
1 (14-ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
1/2 pound fully cooked smoked sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
1/2 to 3/4 pound medium, fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined
In a Dutch oven, combine mix, water, tomatoes, tomato sauce and smoked sausage. Bring mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Cover, reduce heat and let simmer for 20 minutes. Add shrimp and cook for an additional 5 to 7 minutes, or until shrimp are pink.
Jambalaya Mix:
1 cup long-grain rice
3 tablespoons dried minced onion
1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
1 tablespoon beef bouillon granules
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 bay leaf
In a small bowl, combine rice, onion, parsley, beef bouillon, thyme, garlic powder, black pepper, cayenne pepper, salt, and bay leaf.
You can't do Southern without fried chicken. Do the ribs too if you are comfortable with that. Slaw, baked beans, crusty rolls, corn on the cob goes well with this. The chicken is a good choice because you can make it ahead and it is good served at room temp. For dessert-- Pound cake or banana pudding.
My Southern Mama's Fried Chicken
Southern Fried Chicken
Buy cut-up fryers or whole chickens (3 lbs. or under is best)
Cut up and wash chicken-- soak in salt water overnight
(about 5-6 big tablespoons salt sprinkled over chicken (roll it around a little) and just barely cover the chicken in water)
Rinse chicken and drain
Put about 1/4 cup CRISCO (not oil) in large skillet
(Best to use electric frying pan)
Heat oil to medium high (Chicken should sizzle when it hits the pan)
Dredge chicken in all purpose flour - shake off ecxcess
Put in pan and season liberally with salt and pepper.
Turn when browned on first side. After turning, season other side with salt and pepper.
Cover and continue to cook-- checking every 5 minutes or so and turning as needed. This should take about 30-40 minutes depending on the size of your chicken. A 3 lb. chicken should be done in about 40 minutes.
Drain on paper towels.
Crowder peas, sliced tomatoes, squash casserole, bbq pork butt, fried pies, sweet potato casserole and pimento cheese are a few more.
I definitely think New Orleans food and coastal food are in sub categories and not indicative of the majority of Southern cooking.
I would look for Edna Lewis's cookbooks, probably at your library, the recipes are great.
I think of pan fried chicken or chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes, cream gravy, black eye peas and biscuits with a tossed green salad. Fried pies, chocolate cream pie or banana pudding for dessert.
This is a favorite meal for my family. In the summer I will substitute fresh sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, onions or whatever is in the garden for the salad. Also the black eye peas can be whatever vegetable I have in the garden at the time.
I lived in NC for 22 years so I'm a little familiar with what southerners (friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc)served for special occasions. I think you'd be safe going with your ribs, a really good potato salad, tossed salad or layered salad, Ambrosia, iced tea (some can be sweetened to be authentic!!), and home made coconut cake (the kind you make 2 or 3 days ahead and saturate with the sweetened coconut milk). North Carolinians would also have pimiento cheese sandwiches available :) If you're not an expert at fried chicken, I wouldn't try it for company...it's tricky! Ann
Sorry to disagree with many of you....but we do not see fried chicken as a special occasion food anymore. And crowder peas, baked beans, and blackeyed peas don't fit the bill either. Pimento cheese sandwiches are great for a picnic or tea party. Squash casserole is a good vegetable side dish anytime.
Baked ham or a beef tenderloin or standing rib roast would make it a special occasion. Baked chicken pieces would be nice, but nothing too messy like BBQ chicken or any hand held chicken recipe.
Just my opinion - Teresa
OK. I'm in South Georgia and I can tell you that every event we attend has boston butt and fried chicken. Actually, I also see a lot of quail and frog legs too. If you attend Rotary with my husband, the men are mad when they substitute baked chicken for friend chicken.
The fried chicken and BBQ route is what I'd go with if I was trying to serve a southern casual meal. But my favorite southern food is shrimp and grits. I like it served with andouille and red, green, yellow peppers and lots of onion.
But since this is for your daughter, I'd pick something she was happy with. If you are unsure about frying chicken and you don't have a place you can purchase it already prepared, there are several baked fried chicken recipes that are good, and while not authentic, is better than a cooking disaster. Also keep in mind that I think odors from frying last longer than other smells.
I think for a crowd, I'd lean toward ribs, chicken, baked beans, cole slaw, rolls, maybe some potato salad, ambrosia, definately SWEET Tea (when you think it is sweet enough - add another cup of sugar) and some banana pudding for dessert. Actually, instead of ambrosia, I'd make a pineapple gelatin molded dessert (yes - like in the 50's) that is similar to Millionaire Pie but served in a special mold. (I have a recipe if you are interested).
I tend to offer too many options when serving a crowd, so I'd probably have corn on the cobb, some sliced ham, and some slow cooked (with country ham) butter beans as well.
Welll, Fried chicken is probably the easiest thing in the world to cook and the first thing you think of if you're going with a Southern theme. However, if you want fancy or sophisticated southern-- we here in the South can do that too. Prime rib would work nicely, wrap some asparagus in proscuitto (which is really just plain old country ham sliced real thin) and grill just until crisp tender. Serve a nice green salad with baby greens and rasperry vinagarette with shaved parmesean on top. Twice baked potatoes would be a nice addition and your starch dish. And for dessert, what about a nice apple pie with vanilla ice cream--- or the coconut cake that Ann mentioned (I've made it many times) BUT------ if you're going for a true SOUTHERN theme--- it will not be recognizable as southern.
Just another opinion. -
Southern born and bred.
Authentic Southern food is still alive and well! There is a time and place for everything - certain dishes that will be found on the family dining table during the week and special menus for holidays and celebration dinners. And there are no food police in the South that say some foods can't migrate back and forth from "everyday" to "special occasion." But be prepared for Aunt Alma to show up with deviled eggs and potato salad for Christmas dinner! (this does happen in some families, but not mine!) LOL!
Maybe we are thinking "authentic southern" is a little different from what the other is thinking.
I learned the basics of cooking from my mother in law, many moons ago. She was raised by her grandparents who were sharecroppers. The original "authentic" southern cooking that I spoke of was of this origin. There was a lot of straight up grease involved. Absolutely delicious, but very unhealthy. Just a simple pot of butter beans and peas had a lot of bacon grease. Of course, my mouth waters just thinking about it.
I still have a lots of southern dishes that I cook, but for me, I have evolved from the origin of my cooking basics.
DH is Georgia born and bred and every family dinner we attend has to have banana pudding--homemade with vanilla wafers. There is also always a few pecan pies.
If you want to serve grits, we love a restaurant in Forsythe, GA that serves a Grits Martini. It's cheese grits with chopped shrimp and a touch of apple smoked bacon served in a martini glass with a whole shrimp dangling on the rim of the glass. I don't know what kind of cheese they use, but it's very pale and super good. This would make a good appetizer for the adults if you are planning to have one.
Grillades and grits, shrimp creole, crawfish pie or jambalaya are all good possibilties that could be done largely ahead of time. I'd not want to be trying to fry chicken for 20 people at a party..... to me it's great for a family meal, but not something I want to be doing while guests are over.
For side dishes: butter beans, sweet potatoes, corn pudding, okra, biscuits or cornbread
Dessert: Pecan pie or red velvet cake
Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet Potato Casserole (just mash the potatoes, add brown sugar and pecans, stir in some melted butter - all according to taste). This can be made in advance.
Biscuits or cornbread should definitely be the bread.
Iced tea, including Sweet Tea
I would be interested in knowing what you finally decided on for your celebration menu. After all the praising and dissing of fried chicken, what is southern and what isn't, I would probably have said forget it to the southern menu. Don't get me wrong, I love fried chicken, potato salad, deviled eggs, fried okra etc and as far as I'm concerned you could hardly go wrong with it, but it might have been difficult to prepare it for the type of gathering you were having and it must have been very confusing for you with so many different opinions of what was "southern".
Southern to the core, Jude
Well unfortunately I had to revamp the menu as I was informed 6 of the adults were on restricted diets due to medical and weight issues....so I thought that going a high calorie meal would not be nice for those who couldnt enjoy I went with Shepherds Pie (one was made with turkey chop meat and low fat mashed potato) and i made sauted cabbage and salad with soda bread ...It went over very big and the guest were pleased that I took there situation into consideration. I did keep the ideas from this post for the future when entertaining others.
I'm so glad it went well Eileen and you were very nice to take your guests problems into consideration.
For any future southern style meals you may wish to have and from my deep south vantage point, I can tell you Cajun and Creole cooking may be in the deep south geographically, but is another totally different catagory from southern cooking. Southern cooking is also not a diffent ethnic catagory as I've seen suggested in other areas. Fried chicken isn't a special dish here although it does seem to be a southern dish, as is fried pork chops, fried corn, corn on the cob, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens and cornbread (usually without sugar). ; ) Also southern are summer squash casserole, fried green tomatoes, string beans cooked for hours in chicken broth with ham hock and onions, crowder peas, and purple hull peas. Okra, either boiled or fried, lima beans, fried or mashed potatoes and potato salad are a few more. In the winter usually pinto beans and large white lima beans show up quiet often. BBQ pork which is pulled, though not even close the same as the pulled pork recipes you see now all over the place. The staple here is cooked extremely low for twelve or more hours over an open pit, usually over hickory wood. It has no ketchupy or sugary sauce on it at all, mainly a little vinegar, water and cayenne pepper.
Eileen, you were so good to be considerate of your guests. Sounds like you had a very tasty meal. I agree with beverlyal that Cajun and Creole are categorically far from southern cooking as a whole and so are the foods from the east coast. Shrimp and grits etc. are very popular nowadays but that has come about, I thnk with the advent of Food TV programs and the media in particular. There's so much more out there for us now and that's a good thing. You'll enjoy trying some of the foods that were suggested. I'm so glad everything went well for you.
Hi, I'm in the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee. I know the date has come and gone for when you needed southern recipes, Eileen, but I wanted to share one of my favorite southern cooking sites with you just the same.
Here is a link that might be useful: About.com: Southern Food
You're right, Patty about Applewood Farmhouse but since we live in Knoxville we just went up for apples and lunch and weren't there long enough for another meal. My STRONGEST memory, not my best was when we went there for dinner in the summertime. I had on a snow white blouse with a collar and a v-neck. I stuck my fork in a killer grape tomato and when I started to cut it with my knife a kajillion tomato seeds went all over my blouse and my neck. Fortunately no one was sitting near us but I spent the entire time picking tomato seeds. My DH kept saying "Honey there's more under the collar" etc. It was so embarassing.


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Ficus, Multi-Trunks to Single-Trunks
Well, I finally did it.
For years, I've wanted a Rubber Tree w/one main trunk. Multi trunks are pretty, but I prefer standards.
While outside, 'pruners in hand,' I decapited all but one stem on green/red hue and variegated Rubber Trees.
Now what? Both trunks are a little crooked. Wish I knew how grafting was done, but I don't, so that's out.
Is there a way for the stems to grow straight, AND, will they branch out at some point?
Any suggestions? Thanks, Toni
Purple, again I apoligize for the other thread. I feel terrible.
Yes, both F. Rubber Trees were tall and full.
Variegated was purchased at KMart in autumn 1989 for 1.50. A solo 7-inch trunk, w/2-3 leaves, sitting outside in the cold.
Green was bought a few years before the variegated.
Both grew tall and full.
Well, you saw the decapitation, lol.
If I know how to graft, I'd have air-layered, 'instead of chopping' various stems. After rooting, they'd be grafted on root stock. This way each Ficus would grow as a standard.
Yep, stumps will continue growing..each will need sawing off each time one produces new growth.
Anyway, that's my plant..growing two standard trees.
Bushy plants are nice, but I have a thing for solo trunks. lol..Space is another issue. Bushy plants need a lot more room than Standards.
Purple, I tossed the excess pieces. Didn't know what else to do w/them, so in the compost they went.
I only hope both trees grow upright, then fill out. lol. Wishful thinking.
Well I've looked and can't find any pics of the rubber tree I had that was almost as tall as me. I think it had side branches, but really couldn't say for sure. Do you remember me telling you it froze to death my first winter here? Still missing it - it was a big ol' cat.
If your plants are inclined to grow side branches, which I can't imagine they wouldn't since they are trees, I think pruning job would induce them to start doing so, if they're not too busy trying to grow from the bottom. Not sure I can picture what you see for them in your mind's eye.
That's an interesting form I can't experiment with here without some big rocks in the pot. Amazingly, only 1 pot was tipped over by TS Debby's 50+ mph gusts. That only happened because it got so dry. Most of the time there's not even a breeze, but it can get really windy about any time.
you wrote:
If I know how to graft, I'd have air-layered, 'instead of chopping' various stems. After rooting, they'd be grafted on root stock. This way each Ficus would grow as a standard.
I am not sure if I have it right, but air-layering produces roots so you could plant air-layered piece into the soil & get new plant.
Grafting does not require air-layering - I hope I understand it correctly - you just take piece of plant you want to "convert" into standard (or graft weaker (?) tree onto a sturdy rootstock-they do it with roses a lot-I don't grow roses), and graft it onto rootstock & I think there is at least a couple of different methods of grafting.
When you graft, there is sometimes a 'bulge' visible where grafting was done, with roses, it is usually very close to soil. With standard, the tree will be as tall as rootstock was - I think - , then you will have the actual plant.
I air-layered a palm tree that was growing terribly tall & was hitting the ceiling; after the roots were visible, I just cut it off below & replanted. So now I have a 4feet tall palm instead over 8feet, bending because of ceiling. Air layering took about 3-4 month (I think that is very fast).
I hope someone knowledgable will post, I know Al (tapla) mentioned air-layering too.
I hope I am not misleading anyone...
you wrote:
Oops, not me.
But I was having the exact same thoughts from having the same beliefs, that's why I asked what would be grafted and was also wondering why throw the pieces away if there was a previous desire to air layer them. Sticking them in a pot would be a lot easier than air layering. If they are planted upright, they should grow "as a standard."
Purple..I remember you telling me a plant or two froze, but can't recall which plant.
Heck, I'd have sent you a bunch of Rubber Tree trunks. All went in the compost. Variegated and green/'purple.' :)
Oh yes, side branches are inevitable. I'll continue pruning...maybe they'll get the idea and stop growing. lol.
Purple, thank God you're not in Debi's range, by much anyway, and other 'canes missed your home.
Rina, I said it.
See, now you know why I can't graft...lol
You're right..I should know since my Adeniums and Citrus are grafted, (with bulges) but they were grafted before I adopted. Otherwise, they'd be seedlings. lol
I've AL'ed in the past, too, and yes, the top portion becomes a second plant. Most often, the bottom regrows.
Ha, I once tried grafting a rooted Azalea..it lived throughout summer, then kicked the bucket. Poor plant hung on as long as possible.
At the time I had one Poncirus trunk, so gave it a try. Can't recall which method, but it didn't work, so I gave up.
Rina, you're right..w/standard the tree will be the same height as root stock, plus.
Thanks, Toni

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A composition comprising a copolymer of from 20 to 60 parts of at least one member selected from the class consisting of acrylic and methacrylic acids, from 20 to 70 parts of one member selected from the class of lower alkyl acrylates and lower alkyl methacrylates, and from 5 to 20 parts of a plasticizing monomer, in which at least some of the acid groups have been neutralized by multivalent cations, where a chemical, exclusive of water and plasticizer, releasable from a film of the referenced copolymer, is formed by casting and drying an aqueous solution of the copolymer containing the chemical.
1. In an agricultural fine chemical composition, the improvement which comprises employing as the copolymeric carrier from a film of which an effective amount of the agricultural fine chemical is releasable:
a copolymer derived from a monomer mixture selected from the class consisting of acrylic acid, from 20 to 70 parts of at least one member selected from the class consisting of lower alkyl acrylates and lower alkyl methacrylates, and from 5 to 20 parts of a long chain ester of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, where the chain length is from 8 to 18 carbon atoms in the ester portion, said copolymer having a molecular weight of more than one million as determined by its intrinsic viscosity in methylethyl ketone at 25� C, in which at least some of the acid groups have been neutralized by multivalent inorganic cations selected from the class consisting of zinc and copper.
2. The composition of claim 1 wherein the agricultural fine chemical is a herbicide.
3. An aqueous solution of the material of claim 1.
4. A method for releasing an effective amount of an agricultural fine chemical to a locus at a controlled rate comprising:
a. applying to the locus a solution or dispersion of the chemical to be released in an aqueous solution of a copolymer derived from a monomer mixture comprising from 20 to 60 parts of a member selected from the class consisting of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, from 20 to 70 parts of a member selected from the class consisting of lower alkyl acrylates and lower alkyl methacrylates, and from 5 to 20 parts of a long chain ester of acrylic or methacrylic acid, where the long chain has from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, said copolymer having a molecular weight of more than the million as determined by its intrinsic viscosity in methylethyl ketone at 25� C, in which at least some of the acid groups have been neutralized by multivalent inorganic cations selected from the class consisting of zinc and copper; and
b. allowing the water to evaporate from the solution.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the copolymer has been bulk copolymerized.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 279,888, filed Aug. 11, 1972 now U.S. Pat. No. 3,959,237, in the name of Izhak Blank, for "Sustained Release Polymers." Said application was based upon British application Ser. No. 37936/71, filed Aug. 12, 1971.
There are many situations where it is desired to provide a chemical compound at a locus over a prolonged period. However, if the compound is applied to the locus in pure form or in the presence of one of the conventional carriers it will normally only be present for a short while before ambient conditions disperse it or, if any sustained action is to occur, it has to be present in such large quantities initially that dispersion of ambient conditions takes a long time.
For example agricultural fine chemicals are generally applied by spraying in the form of an aqueous dispersion or by dusting onto plants or soil surrounding the plants. The result of these methods is that if sufficient active compound is applied to be present for a long period of time a substantial part of the chemical supplied will, during this time, be swept away by ambient conditions, such as wind, rain and surface water and part may be degraded by the action of sunlight. The fine chemicals act as pollutants in most cases, as also may their degradation products, and conventional methods of application tend to result in the use of much greater quantities than are actually required for the desire active effect.
One previous attempt at reducing the losses of fine chemicals in agriculture and elsewhere involves applying them in the form of granules or by applying them in the form of capsules, the chemicals being encapsulated within the polymeric material. Another proposal (in U.S. Pat. No. 2,652,322) has involved application of the fine chemicals in the presence of a hydroxyalkyl acrylate and another proposal has involved the use of copolymers of acrylic acid and acrylate as carrier. However none of these proposals is very satisfactory in that the fine chemical is usually released from the deposited film at an uncontrollable and rather fast rate.
It has been my object to devise new polymeric materials that are of particular value in the formulation of carriers that will result in sustained release of chemicals carried by the carriers, for example agricultural fine chemicals, and a further object has been the provision of compositions comprising agricultural fine chemicals and a carrier which is such as to permit sustained release of the fine chemicals, and a further object has been the provision of agricultural methods in which fine chemicals are released gradually.
New copolymers according to the invention are water soluble and are derived from a monomer mixture comprising 20 to 60 parts acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, 20 to 70 parts lower alkyl (C1 -C4) acrylate or methacrylate, and 5 to 20 parts of a plasticizing monomer and are at least partially neutralized. In this specification all parts and percentages are by volume unless otherwise specified.
The amount of acid in the monomer mixture is usually at least 25 parts and often it is at least 40 parts and is preferably about 50 parts (e.g. 48 to 52 parts). The amount of alkyl acrylate or methacrylate is usually at least 25 parts and is often less than 50 parts.
A particularly preferred copolymer comprises 40 to 60 parts, preferably about 50 parts, acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, 25 to 50 parts, preferably 25 to 35 parts, alkyl acrylate or methacrylate and 5 to 20 parts, preferably 10 to 15 parts, of a plasticizing monomer and is at least partially neutralized.
The alkyl acrylate or methacrylate is usually methyl acrylate or methacrylate, most preferably methylmethacrylate. The acid is usually acrylic acid. The plasticizing monomer is preferably a long chain ester (e.g. having 8 to 18 carbon atoms in the chain) of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, usually having an alkyl ester of, preferably, acrylic acid. A preferred ester is ethylhexylacrylate. Others include lauryl acrylate or methacrylate, stearyl acrylate or methacrylate and similar materials.
The copolymer may be derived from a monomer mixture containing other monomers, although usually such other monomers do not form a major proportion of the mixture. Preferably such other monomers are present in small amounts only, for example less than 10 parts. An example of a suitable other monomer is a cross-linking monomer, i.e. a monomer that will give rise to cross-linking within the copolymer. Cross-linking monomers which can be used include glycol dimethylacrylate and other diacrylates or dimethylacrylates, allyl methacrylate and divinylbenzene. The amount of cross-linking monomer is generally from 0.05 to 5 parts per 100 parts copolymer.
The copolymers of the invention may have high molecular weight, for example more than 1,000,000, and often more than 2,000,000, or even of the order of 4,000,000 or more. Such a high molecular weight can most easily be determined by measuring the intrinsic viscosity, and these high molecular weight copolymers have an intrinsic viscosity in methylethyl ketone at 25� C of 2.5 or more. However for some applications polymers with an intrinsic viscosity of as low as 0.6 or less can be used.
The copolymers can be made by any convenient method, for example emulsion, suspension or solution polymerisation, but the most satisfactory way of making the copolymers is by bulk copolymerisation. This gives a high molecular weight. The bulk polymerisation may be carried out at a temperature of from 40� to 60� C, preferably 45� to 5� C, usually in the presence of a suitable catalyst such as a peroxide, for example benzoyl peroxide or lauryl peroxide, or an azo compound, the preferred catalyst being α,α-azodiisobutyronitrile The polymerisation can also be catalysed by ultra violet radiation. When catalyst is added the amount may be from 0.01 to 0.12% by weight based on the total weight of monomers, the preferred amount being 0.03 to 0.05%. Polymerisation may be conducted in a casting cell.
If desired a chain terminator or regulator may be included in the reaction mixture in order to control the molecular weight. A suitable regulator is dodecanthiol.
The copolymers of the invention are water soluble as a result of neutralising some at least of the acidic groups with a suitable base. The corresponding compounds in which all the acidic groups are in the acid form are usually water insoluble. The partially or completely neutralised copolymers may be isolated as, for example, solid salts or as aqueous solutions.
A particular advantage of the copolymers of the invention is that, in addition to some of them being capable of giving very good sustained release of chemicals formulated with them, it is possible easily to vary the properties of a copolymer either during its production or after its production. Thus during its production the properties of a copolymer can be varied by appropriate selection of the starting monomers, and in particular the amount of acid, cross-linking agent and chain terminater if present. More important, however, is the ability to modify the properties of the copolymer after its formation. Thus the rate of release of chemicals from a film of the copolymer that carries them can be closely regulated by appropriate choice of neutralising agent and the amount of neutralising agent. Thus for any particular copolymer the polymer is most hydrophilic, and therefore most able to release chemicals carried by it quickly, if all the acidic groups are neutralised by a monovalent base. In order to control the rate of release it is therefore often preferred that only a proportion of the acid groups should be neutralised, for example between 25 and 90%, often 25 to 75%, of the acid groups.
A particularly preferred way of modifying the properties of the acidic copolymer is to neutralise it completely or partially with multivalent, usually divalent, organic or inorganic cations. The use of a multivalent base results in a form of cross-linking occurring between the acidic groups. For example instead of using a monovalent base, such as an alkali metal or ethanolamine, salts can be formed with metals such as zinc and copper. The most satisfactory way of forming these salts is to react the acidic copolymer with a zinc ammonium, copper ammonium or similar compound. An example of a suitable organic divalent base is ethylene diamine or ethylene imine.
The internally plasticised copolymer of the invention may additionally be externally plasticised by compounding it with conventional plasticisers such as dioctyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, or sebacates.
A releasable chemical can be released at a controlled rate at a selected locus if it is applied to the locus in the form of a composition with one of the described partially or completely neutralised copolymers. Copolymers may be neutralised with monovalent bases but for many uses, e.g. when the composition is being used agriculturally and rain falls, these may permit too rapid release of the releasable chemical. Copolymers neutralised with divalent bases generally give more gradual release since it is easily possible so to formulate them that the film obtained on drying the aqueous solution of the composition is of decreased solubility.
Accordingly preferred compositions according to the invention comprises a releasable chemical and a described copolymer that is partially or completely neutralised by a multivalent bases, as described. Naturally the releasable chemical is in addition to any water and any external plasticiser that may be present in the composition and is a chemical that is releasable from a film obtainable upon casting and drying aqueous composition. These releasable chemicals are usually agricultural fine chemicals but may be medicinal fine chemicals or others.
The preferred compositions are compositions containing agricultural fine chemicals.
Agricultural fine chemicals may be defined as pesticides, i.e. compounds for controlling or eliminating growth of undesirable organisms, for example the chemicals described variously as herbicides, nematocides, insecticides, fungicides, bactericides and biocides, and chemicals for regulating or promoting growth as a result of the application of extremely small quantities, for example the materials known as growth hormones, or nutrients containing trace elements. The invention is, of course, not intended for the application of large quantities of conventional bulk fertilisers. Examples of suitable fine chemicals include 4-thiazolyl benzimidazole, manganese ethylene bisdithiocarbamide, methyl-1-(butylcarbamoyl)-2-benzimidazole carbamate, 2,6-dichlorothiobenzamide and gibberellic acid.
The preferred compositions may be formed by compounding an agricultural fine chemical with a carrier that either includes the copolymer either in partially or completely neutralised state or includes both the copolymer in acidic form and an appropriate amount of a suitable base. The compositions may be solid or they may be liquid. Thus they may be solutions or dispersions of the agricultural fine chemical in an aqueous solution of the wholly or partially neutralised polymer. The compositions may contain conventional ingredients such as wetting agents.
The agricultural compositions may be applied by spraying, dipping, painting or any other suitable method of application either direct to plants, leaves, fruits, seeds, roots or parts thereof or indirectly for example to the soil surrounding growing plants.
The invention is of particular value for the application of herbicides. Most herbicides are water-soluble in various degrees and are eluted into the soil by the solubilising action of rain or irrigation water. The weedkillers are often also noxious to the plants to be protected and it is most desirable that they should be concentrated in the upper layer of the soil and that they should not be allowed to penetrate to such a depth that they come in contact with the roots of the crop.
We have now found that by applying the weedkiller in accordance with the invention a film can be formed on the top layer of the soil which retains the weedkiller and considerably reduces its leaching into the lower layers of the soil.
As a corollary, the fact that the weedkiller is limited to a narrower layer, makes its use safer for the crop, and smaller amounts can be used to achieve the same results.
For this application we have found that the most suitable copolymers are those having an extremely high molecular weight. We have also found that in order to obtain the best results, the copolymer obtained should be neutralised in such a way that the film obtained from its aqueous solution should have a much reduced solubility on drying. A zinc-ammonium complex or similar bases are very satisfactory.
We find generally that best results are obtained in agricultural methods when the copolymer is one of the very high molecular weight copolymers described above, for example formed by bulk polymerisation. The high molecular weight appears to give the film formed from the solution of the polymer good stability against degradation by ultra violet light and also renders the copolymer inherently very hydrophobic. Accordingly the copolymer can, and indeed must, contain a large amount of acid groups in order to render it sufficiently water soluble, and the presence of this large proportion in a hydrophobic structure makes it possible to control accurately the balance between the hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties in order to obtain optimum release rates and other properties.
The invention is illustrated in the following examples in which parts are by volume unless otherwise specified.
A copolymer was formed in a casting cell from a mixture of 35 parts methylmethacrylate, 54 parts acrylic acid and 10 parts ethylhexylacrylate and 1 part dodecanthiol. To this was added 500 p.p.m. of α,α'-azodiisobutyronitrile. The polymerisation was controlled at 45� to 55� C over a period of 24 hours but during the last three hours the temperature was raised to 80� C. This copolymer was termed copolymer A. It was ground to -200 mesh.
Another copolymer, copolymer B, was made by reacting by the method described in Example 1 a monomer mixture of 29 parts acrylic acid, 60 parts methylmethacrylate and 10 parts 2-ethylhexylacrylate and 1 part dodecanthiol with 500 p.p.m. α,α'-azodiisobutyronitrile. It was then ground as in Example 1.
A 2.5% aqueous solution of copolymer A was prepared by mixing, vigorously, the powdered polymer with water and adding sufficient sodium hydroxide to neutralise 36% of the carboxylic groups (sodium copolymer A). Sufficient 2,6-dichlorothiobenzamide powder was dispersed in the sodium copolymer A to obtain a weed killer to polymer ratio of 16:100.
A quantity of 2 milliliters of the dispersion was cast on a glass plate having an area of 10 centimeters by 4 centimeters so as to obtain a uniform film and the material was allowed to dry at room temperature. The film was then immersed in water, allowed to dry for 24 hours, and immersed again. The content of active material in the water after each immersion was determined by spectrophotometry. Thirteen total immersions were necessary to release all the active material from the polymeric film when the immersion time was 30 seconds, while only seven immersions were required with a 60 second immersion time. The amount of active material released during each immersion was essentially constant.
The same procedure was followed as in Example 3 except that the active material employed was 4-thiazolyl benzimidazole. The active material was released after eleven immersions in 30 seconds duration or seven immersions of 60 seconds duration.
Copolymer A was neutralised using a zinc ammonium complex in an amount sufficient to neturalise 36% of the carboxylic acid groups present (zinc copolymer A). On drying, the film lost ammonia and the zinc produced cross-linking drastically reducing the release rate. The release rate was diminished to such a degree that none of the active material was released during short immersion times.
A mixture of the sodium copolymer A and zinc copolymer A in a ratio of 1:1 was used in the same manner as in Example 1 with 2,6-dichlorothiobenzamide as the active material. Only 30% of the active material had been released from the copolymer mixture after 12-30 second immersions. Twelve immersions of 60 seconds duration resulted in the release of 45% of the active material while only eight immersions were required to release all of the active material when the immersions were of 120 seconds duration.
The same procedure was employed as in Example 6 but employing 4-thiazolyl benzimidazole as the active material. A negligible release was attained employing 30 second immersions. Twelve immersions of 60 seconds duration resulted in the released of 8% of the active material, while 20% of the active material was released employing 12 immersions of 120 seconds each.
The procedure of Example 3 was employed using zinc copolymer A in conjunction with 2,6-dichlorothiobenzamide. 90% of the active material was released after one 30 minute immersion.
The same procedure was followed as in Example 3 employing copolymer B with 33% of the carboxylic groups neutralised with zinc. The active material employed was 2,6-dichlorothiobenzamide. 40% of the active material was released after one 30 minute immersions, and 95% of the active material was released after one 60 minute immersion.
Copolymer B was completely neutralised with zinc employing a zinc ammonium complex. The active material employed following the procedure of Example 3, was 2,6-dichlorothiobenzamide. The amounts of active material released following controlled immersion times, were as follows:
______________________________________Time of Immersion Active Material Released(Minutes) (%)______________________________________30 1160 50120 72______________________________________
Sodium copolymer A was used in conjunction with gibberilic acid in the manner described in Example 3. Approximately 5% of the active material was released during a 60 second immersion.
A copolymer prepared employing 25% acrylic acid, 65% methyl methacrylate, and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate by emulsion polymerisation. This copolymer was partially neutralised with sodium hyroxide and diluted with a 2.5% concentration. A quantity of 2,6-dichlorothiobenzamide was added to the copolymer solution and a film was formed as described in Example 3. After four 30 second immersions 25% of the active material was released, while 60% was released after four 60 second immersions.
Cucumber plants were infected with powdery mildew and then treated with agricultural chemicals to overcome the infection. The active ingredient employed was methyl-1-(butylcarbamoyl)-2-benzimidazol carbamate, in one case alone, and in the other case contained in a quantity of copolymer A of Example 1 completely neutralise with ammonia. Testing showed that the mixtures of the agricultural chemical with the hydrophilic copolymer was 10 times more effective than the agricultural chemical alone.
In a Sigma Blade Mixer were put 500 grams of copolymer A powder A powder prepared as per Example 1. Added 56 grams of sodium hyroxide in 40 grams of water. Mixed for 6 hours. The powder obtained was water soluble.
In a Sigma Blade Mixer were put 360 grams of copolymer A powder prepared as per Example 1. Added 30 grams of zinc oxide and mixed. Separately a mixture of 38 grams zinc oxide, 68 grams ammonium carbonate and 48 grams ammonia solution (28% concentration) was prepared. This second mixture was slowly added to the first. After completing the mixture, the whole was ground in a hammer mill to a fine powder, termed product X.
The powder obtained as per Example 15 was mixed with Methomyl (Lanate) in the proportion of 8 parts of Methomyl to 250 parts of the powder. This mixture was then dissolved in water to obtain a concentration of 0.08% of the toxicant.
Tests were carried out by spraying this solution on tomato plants and comparing it with a commercial formulation of the same toxicant at the same concentration. The Lanate-polymer combination still gave a mortality of 53% of the insects after 19 days, while the Lanate commercial formulation gave no mortality after this period.
The powder obtained as per Example 15 was mixed with methyl parathion in the proportion of 12.5 parts of powder to one part of methyl parathion. Tomato plants were sprayed with a solution of this mixture containing 0.1% of the toxicant. Locust was used as the test insect. The plants were subjected to intermittent rains of 10mm each.
Comparison was made with a commercial emulsifiable concentrated formulation of methyl parathion, using the same conditions and concentrations.
After 45 days and 13 rains the polymer-methyl parathion combination gave a kill of 73% of the insects, while the commercial formulation killed only 7% of the insects after 17 days and 5 rains.
In a laboratory ball mill 10 grams of copolymer A were mixed with a mixture comprising:
______________________________________CuCo3 2.5 gramsNH4 OH (28%) 1.5 grams(NH3)2 CO3 3.3 grams______________________________________
After 3 hours of mixing, a blue water-soluble powder are obtained.
The powder obtained as per Example 18 was mixed with Maneb in the proportion of 5 parts of polymer to one part of the fungicide. A solution of this mixture was prepared, containing 0.5% of Manb. For comparison, a commercial preparation of Maneb was used at the same concentration. The test was made on tomato leaves infected with curvularia. Discs were cut and inhibition zones were measured. The polymer-fungicide combination gave an inhibition zone of 20mm diameter after 14 days, while the commercial Maneb formulation gave an inhibition zone of only 3mm diameter after 4 days.
The powder obtained as per Example 14 was mixed with methyl parathion in the proportion of 25 parts of powder to 2 parts of methyl parathion. An aqueous solution was prepared from this mixture, containing 0.2% methyl parathion. Comparison was made with commercial methyl parathion EC at the same concentration. Tests were made on tomato plants, using laphygma exigua as the test insect.
The polymer-toxicant combination still gave 100% kill after 24 days, while the commercial formulation gave 57% kill after 5 days and no kill after 8 days.
A copolymer was made by repeating exactly the process described in Example 1 except that 0.2 parts dodecanthiol were used. The resultant copolymer powder was then formed into a powdered zinc salt in the same manner, and using the same materials and amounts of materials, as described in Example 15. The resultant product was termed product Y.
It will be appreciated that due to the decreased amount of dodecanthiol the molecular weight of product Y is higher than the molecular weight of product X.
This example shows the influence of molecular weight on the performance of polymers of the invention and compared to the properties of product X, of Example 15, and product Y, of Example 21. In this example solutions containing various amounts of product X or product Y and containing also a weed-killer, namely Atrazine or Cotoran were sprayed onto soil which was then irregated to an extent equivalent to 500 m3 /ha. Results on sandy soil are given in Table I and the results on clay soil are given in Table 2. It will be seen that the use of products X and Y, and in particular the use of the high molecular weight product, namely Y, significantly reduces the depth to which the weed-killer is leached. Accordingly the weedkiller is maintained nearer the surface of the soil and so is effective against surface rooting weeds but ineffective against deep rooting crops.
Table I______________________________________ Depth of Weed- Concentration of killer LeachingWeedkiller Product Product (cm)______________________________________Atrazine -- -- 16Atrazine Y 0.75 14Atrazine Y 1.25 13Atrazine Y 2.00 10Atrazine X 2.50 14Cotoran -- -- 17Cotoran Y 0.75 13Cotoran Y 1.25 11Cotoran Y 2.00 6Cotoran X 2.50 14______________________________________
Table 2______________________________________ Concentration of Depth of Weed-Weedkiller Product Product killer Leaching (cm)______________________________________Atrazine -- -- 9" Y 2.00 4Cotoran -- -- 11" Y 2.00 5______________________________________
We have described in our copending Application 14848/71, filed 13th May 1971, hydrophilic copolymers derived by bulk polymerisation from a monomer mixture comprising 25 to 50% by volume of lower alkyl acrylate or lower alkyl methacrylate, 40 to 60% by volume of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid and 5 to 20% by volume of a long chain ester of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid and in which copolymer the acid groups are neutralised. In practice complete neutralisation of the acid groups was effected. As a result of the copolymers having been made by bulk polymerisation they generally had a high molecular weight.
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This was a standard size bus I guess. :)
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But is she? Developmentally, yes of course...yet she still retains so much of her essence. Curious, vulnerable, exuberant, loud, open, funny, fun-loving, watchful, observant, thinking, particular, loving, impatient, questioning, creative. These labels don't really capture her. Can you ever capture a person in words? Perhaps just your own fleeting interpretation of them, if you are good enough to accurately express this, that's all. She is so much more than I have the language for. And there is so much of her that is unknown, unknowable. As it should be.
It took her to be born for me to truly understand the words "force of nature". For she is one, a blast of energy which has shot through our lives, changing it and the world forever.
It is a joy to watch her unfurl. To find her people, to gain more confidence to go out into the world.
There are times when she drives us crazy, of course. Our adult, traditionally brought-up selves can sometimes hardly bear the sheer untramelled humanness of this small child. We put negative labels on her (usually silently thankfully) - rude, selfish. We attach intentions to her- interrupting, ignoring, not listening, dawdling. I catch myself thinking she is ungrateful at times, Yet she has not asked to be given things. And is actually surprisingly grateful mostly. This is for another post…I have many thoughts on all that modern kids are given.
All the while she is just being herself. Perfectly imperfect. Like us all if we could just accept.
Enough of the musings now. She is a most wonderful daughter and being and we celebrated her birthday in style.
Pink coconut cake (pink ALLLLLLL the way through, baby!) for bringing into school, balloons, a toy owl to keep her other toy owl company, a pink bike basket (the last two requested), a book about a girl engineer (Mam chosen of course), lego, more books and much more from family and friends. Then a family trip to a hydrotherapy pool. Disco lights! Water jets! Bubbles! Currents!
Pizza and ice-cream on the seafront? Of course!
Then at the weekend a wonderful party in a local museum with lots of fairy and Medusa based activities, to tie in with current interests, with all the school friends, and some from before. It would have been brilliant to invite everyone, but not possible, or desireable I guess. It was both a relief and a joy to see her run free and spend the entire party playing with her friends and to be so excited to celebrate with her people. No clinging to us at all. Not that I mind helping her feel safe.
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Dr. Meredith Atkinson is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She provides care for children with kidney problems of any type, including patients on peritoneal dialysis; patients with proteinuria, hematuria and chronic kidney disease; and kidney transplant recipients.
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She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Mount Holyoke College. She earned her M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, followed by a fellowship in pediatric nephrology at Hopkins, completed in June 2007. During her fellowship training, Dr. Atkinson received a master's degree in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Atkinson joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2007.
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Dr. Atkinson studies chronic and end-stage kidney disease in children, focusing on the mechanisms and treatment of anemia as well as the biologic and systematic factors that account for disparities in patient outcomes. Some of her latest work has concentrated on unraveling the interplay between vitamin D levels, anemia and race. She is also working to understand treatment outcomes in anemia.
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- Atkinson MA, Kim JY, Roy CN, Warady BA, White CT, Furth SL. "Hepcidin and risk of anemia in CKD: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis in the CKiD cohort." Pediatr Nephrol. 2014 Nov 8. [Epub ahead of print]
- Dahlinghaus EK, Neu AM, Atkinson MA, Fadrowski JJ. "Hemoglobin level and risk of hospitalization and mortality in children on peritoneal dialysis." Pediatr Nephrol. 2014 Dec;29(12):2387-94. doi: 10.1007/s00467-014-2872-x. Epub 2014 Aug 10.
- Lestz RM, Fivush BA, Atkinson MA. "Association of higher erythropoiesis stimulating agent dose and mortality in children on dialysis." Pediatr Nephrol. 2014 Oct;29(10):2021-8. doi: 10.1007/s00467-014-2820-9. Epub 2014 May 3.
- Atkinson MA, Melamed ML, Kumar J, Roy CN, Miller ER 3rd, Furth SL, Fadrowski JJ. "Vitamin D, race, and risk for anemia in children." J Pediatr. 2014 Jan;164(1):153-158.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.08.060. Epub 2013 Oct 8.
- Atkinson MA, Pierce CB, Fadrowski JJ, Benador NM, White CT, Turman MA, Pan CG, Abraham AG, Warady BA, Furth SL. "Association between common iron store markers and hemoglobin in children with chronic kidney disease." Pediatr Nephrol. 2012 Dec;27(12):2275-83. doi: 10.1007/s00467-012-2266-x. Epub 2012 Jul 27.
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WASHINGTON — Americans' confidence in the economy fell this month to the lowest level since April, as many worried about the impact of a 16-day partial government shutdown. The decline could weigh on spending and economic growth.
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