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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1962
Page
4
A quote fragment cites ongoing yearly efforts to lower time and costs of disease prevention versus a large one time control. Vincent notes the reason for special measures and the ongoing basis of the program.
Farm wives in Douglas or Fremont townships are invited to apply for part time work. Send AV on, Manager, Box 1074, Mason City, Iowa, to express interest and receive details about territory availability and duties.
County Extension Director Gene Vincent stresses sanitation and insecticide spray as the only proven controls for Dutch Elm Disease. He notes the disease is not yet in Bremer County but widespread elsewhere, urging rigid sanitation to remove and burn dead or weak elms before infection arrives. The City of Waverly already enforces such a program, with other towns urged to follow.
Tripoli Iowa March 14 1962 warns readers against unproven elm disease cures promoted by various sources. Iowa State plant pathologist H S McNabb cites over 20 years of USDA and university research showing no effective shortcut. Emphasizes real infection verification, replicated long term testing, and dangers of untreated trees serving as disease reservoirs.
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