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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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Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
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Crop Dusting Cranberry Marsh

Date: 08 1936
Description: A plane flies low over a cranberry marsh to dust for leaf-hoppers.
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Flooded Cranberry Marsh

Date: 04 1934
Description: A flooded cranberry bog. In this case the bog was flooded in the spring in order to kill insects.
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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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