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| Date: | 08 31 1939 |
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| Description: | Solvit Chemical Co. sign nailed across two doors numbered 107 & 105, sign says: "Keep Out, Badger 4717 — Madison, Wis., 'Poison Gas' Fumigation." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester spraying outfits. Includes a colored photograph of an apple tree. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Loading a truck with bait at the county mixing station at Balsam Lake during the grasshopper outbreak in northwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men are operating an International I-14 tractor and a beam sprayer. One man is sitting on the tractor while the other man is standing and operating the... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 06 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men use a 150-gallon sprayer attached to the back of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to trees in an orchard. The photograph was t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on top of what appears to be a sprayer, probably for use in orchards (though the urban setting suggests the possibility of other appli... |
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| Description: | Truck parked among buildings, with people standing nearby. Caption reads: "Malaria eradication personnel talking to farmer in the coastal regions north of ... |
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