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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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Homemade Mosquito Duster

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: City of Madison staff demonstrating homemade liquid mosquito sprayer designed by Dr. Bernhard "Dommie" Domogalla, city biochemist. Left to right: LeRoy Joh...
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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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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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Aerial Blight Control Letterhead

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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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