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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Young man in a field spraying pesticide on crops for the Bowker Insecticide Company. |
| 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 27 1944 |
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| Description: | City of Madison staff demonstrating homemade liquid mosquito sprayer designed by Dr. Bernhard "Dommie" Domogalla, city biochemist. Left to right: LeRoy Joh... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | At Cornfalfa Farms two men try automobile exhaust to deal with their woodchuck problem. |
| 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: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | At a small sawmill near Shell Lake, farmers shovel sawdust which will be mixed with a whey product and applied to fields for grasshopper eradication during... |
| 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: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Two farmers operating a pesticide sprayer while another man looks on from atop a nearby International 8-16 tractor. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | A farmer is driving a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor with a sprayer attachment in front of a farmhouse. Two men are working in the foreground. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Two men mixing arsenate of lead before starting out for the orchard on R.R. Roberson's farm. A man on a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor and sprayer is look... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A man is using a horse to pull a barrel sprayer on a drag at Prof. Holden's farm. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A man is using a barrel sprayer to apply pesticide to a fruit tree on Prof. Holden's farm. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Two men applying pesticide with a sprayer in an orchard. Another man is sitting on the horse-drawn wagon carrying the tank. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two men using a "Friend" sprayer to apply pesticide to orchard trees. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A man dusting a potato crop in a field with arsenate of lead. |
| Date: | 08 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Sherwin Williams Company, 340 State Street, window display of PESTROY-DDT, new brush-on liquid coating for screens, porches, basements, sills, thresholds, ... |
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