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McCormick-Deering 15-30 Tractor & Sprayer

Date: 05 1923
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.
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Mixing Pesticide

Date: 04 1923
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...
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Spraying Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 06 1923
Description: Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm.
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Gardening

Date: 1943
Description: A gardener sprays a row of plants with a sprayer and metal container. The container likely holds pesticide.
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Blaney Farms 4-H Booth

Date: 07 30 1948
Description: Blaney Farms 4-H booth with display: "Fight Weed Thieves." Three young women and one young man are shown with a display of farm products. They are all hold...
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Scarecrow

Date: 05 29 1960
Description: A homemade, sack-head scarecrow stands in a small garden.
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Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
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Lesson on Flies in Classroom

Date: 1915
Description: A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou...
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Fly Trap

Date: 1924
Description: A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden.
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Farm Orchard Sprayer, Baskets and Apples

Date: 08 1923
Description: Apples in baskets in front of a "farm orcharding sprayer" at R.R. Robertson's. Farm buildings are in the background. On the left is a grinding wheel powere...
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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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International Harvester Truck in Brazil

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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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