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Man Spraying Field Crops

Date: 1919
Description: Young man in a field spraying pesticide on crops for the Bowker Insecticide Company.
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Cranberry Spraying

Date: 1940
Description: Boom spraying of cranberries, in the Wisconsin Rapids area and probably by members of the Asa Bennett family. This technique using a tractor was developed ...
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Spraying Crops with Pesticide

Date: 1913
Description: Two men are using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a field of corn.
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Dusting Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 1919
Description: A man dusting a potato crop in a field with arsenate of lead.
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Man Spraying Crop with Farmall Tractor

Date: 05 26 1926
Description: A man is using a Farmall Regular tractor with a spraying attachment to apply pesticide(?) to a crop.
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Potato Spraying

Date: 1936
Description: Two farmers using a Farmall tractor with a Bean-Royal #20 sprayer to spray a crop of potatoes.
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Cotton Duster

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: A man spraying a cotton crop with a Farmall Regular tractor and a McCormick-Deering cotton duster owned by J.R. Clark of Dallas, Texas.
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Grasshopper Bulletin

Date: 1915
Description: Bulletin urging farmers to kill grasshoppers with poisoned bran bait, featuring an illustration of a hand spreading bait for grasshoppers to eat.
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Aerial Blight Control Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Aerial Blight Control, Inc., with a man using a hoe while a crop duster sprays the field. Farm buildings and clouds are seen in the distance....
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Spraying Cornfield

Date: 07 1990
Description: "Mark Lifke sprays corn in a field on Warner Road."
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Young Children Bugging and Hoeing Potatoes

Date: 1917
Description: Two young children working barefoot in a field. J.C. Allen.

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