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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: | 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: | 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Airplane owned by the Agricultural Dusting Service of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, dusting a cranberry marsh in Wood County for leaf hoppers. The photographer ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two farmers using a Farmall tractor with a Bean-Royal #20 sprayer to spray a crop of potatoes. |
| Date: | 10 11 1938 |
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| Description: | A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20 orchard and grove tractor with a 14-A disk and duster. Another man is dusting the trees with a pesticide. |
| Date: | 10 11 1938 |
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| Description: | A 10-20 orchard and grove tractor pulls a McCormick-Deering 14-A disk and duster owned by Mackay Estates Ltd. A man is using the duster to apply pesticide ... |
| Date: | 06 01 1938 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a stand on top of a tank pulled by a T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The man is using a Hardie Mogul sprayer with a regular 400-gallon ... |
| 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: | 06 29 1939 |
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| Description: | Four men use a 150 gallon sprayer and a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to an orchard. The photograph was taken in Markham, Ontario, Can... |
| Date: | 08 1936 |
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| Description: | A plane flies low over a cranberry marsh to dust for leaf-hoppers. |
| Date: | 04 1934 |
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| Description: | A flooded cranberry bog. In this case the bog was flooded in the spring in order to kill insects. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co. |
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