Experts Battle Bugs In Farm Life Development
Washington reports on agricultural science fighting insects through new pesticides, plant varieties, and farming techniques. DDT origins, resistance, and the shift to soil rooted insecticides are explored, with notes on pollinator impact and the search for non stinging, effective alternatives like a Brazilian stingless bee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
NEA
Washington
Europe
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Naples
Small force guards US from foreign insect pests
The article notes a 1899-era U S effort against cot tony-cushion scale in California and highlights a thin line of plant quarantine inspectors at major ports who operate year round to keep invasive pests from entering the country. It also mentions a cooking tip about baking casseroles until lightly browned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Australia
California
Ica
Zonta Club hears Mrs Davis talk at Key Hotel
Zonta Club members met at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with president Mike Evelyn Kefauver presiding. Speaker Mrs. Herbert Davis of Middletown discussed her exchanges in Belfast Ireland and South America and recalled visiting Peru in 1941 staying with Incas at 12,000 feet. She urged learning by living with locals. Next meeting is a business session on Monday June 4 at the Key Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zonta Club
Francis Scott Key
Mike Evelyn Kefauver
Herbert Davis
Middletown
Peru
Mexico
Davis
Belfast
Ireland
South America
Andes
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