The Pesticides Season

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The Pesticides Season A,g and Food’s field editors, after a searching probe, describe the season like this:

b

Sales definitely better t h a n last year throughout t h e nation. Infestations and weather more limiting t h a n declining f a r m income

b

Signs point t o some betterment in practice such as price c u t t i n g and consignment

b b

Use of mixtures, systemics, herbicides s t i l l growing

Enthusiasm for antibiotics as pesticides cooling in East because price is too high, but keeping warm in West

b

Soil pest complex under three-pronged attack in West t h i s year

b Nearly 2 m i l l i o n acres of range land in West got spray treatment for grasshoppers 744

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