POISON! Canada Fights Grasshoppers
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Universal-International Pictures. Narrated by Ed Herlihy. Home transfer from 16mm original. The 1949 newsreel titled "POISON! Canada Fights Grasshoppers" showcases the battle against grasshoppers in western Canada. The agricultural department employs modern extermination methods, specifically the chemical chloridane, to combat this pest. Crop dusting planes are utilized to spray large areas infested with locusts, resulting in significant reductions in the grasshopper population. Keywords grasshoppers, Canada, agriculture, pest control, chloridane, crop dusting, newsreel, 1949, extermination, locusts
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Universal-International Pictures. Narrated by Ed Herlihy.
Home transfer from 16mm original.
The 1949 newsreel titled "POISON! Canada Fights Grasshoppers" showcases the battle against grasshoppers in western Canada. The agricultural department employs modern extermination methods, specifically the chemical chloridane, to combat this pest. Crop dusting planes are utilized to spray large areas infested with locusts, resulting in significant reductions in the grasshopper population.
Keywords
grasshoppers, Canada, agriculture, pest control, chloridane, crop dusting, newsreel, 1949, extermination, locusts
Home transfer from 16mm original.
The 1949 newsreel titled "POISON! Canada Fights Grasshoppers" showcases the battle against grasshoppers in western Canada. The agricultural department employs modern extermination methods, specifically the chemical chloridane, to combat this pest. Crop dusting planes are utilized to spray large areas infested with locusts, resulting in significant reductions in the grasshopper population.
Keywords
grasshoppers, Canada, agriculture, pest control, chloridane, crop dusting, newsreel, 1949, extermination, locusts
Transcription
foreign centuries the Locust has brought its plague and ruined to the farmers of the Earth but in western Canada the pest meets modern extermination methods under the direction of the government's agricultural Department a new chemical chloridane is introduced into the fight and goes to work on the Grasshoppers widening the front of the fight crop dusting planes spray thousands of Acres of locust infested land grasshopper casualties
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