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Watching the Dust Settle for the First Time: Battling the Budworm from the Air in Cape Breton, 1925-27 Mark Kuhlberg Watching the Dust Settle: Aerial Dusting in Cape Breton, 1925-27 1 This project is supported by: Thesis A unique

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Watching the Dust Settle for the First Time: Battling the Budworm from the Air in Cape Breton, 1925-27

Mark Kuhlberg

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This project is supported by: Thesis

A unique intersection of forces dictated that Nova Scotia would be the site of the first attempt in Canada to combat the spruce budworm through the aerial application of chemicals

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Origins of Entomology in Canada

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Apple Orchard Near Vernon, BC, ca. 1910

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Hand-Spraying an Orchard in Niagara Region, ON, ca. 1900

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Wagon-mounted Sprayer, Nova Scotia, 1922

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J.M. Swaine, Chief, Forest Insect Division, 1914-1934

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World War I Aircraft

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Spruce Budworm

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Aerial Dusting of Cotton Fields in Southeastern US, ca. 1922

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Picnic in Moose Mountain Forest Reserve, Saskatchewan, ca. 1928

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Dusting the Catalpa Sphinx in Ohio, 1921 [target trees are ahead of the arrow’s point]

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Sheet Harbour Pulp Mill, Nova Scotia, ca. 1927

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Front Page, Halifax Herald, 24 March 1926

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Map Showing Budworm Attack in Nova Scotia [“Big Lease” is to the northeast on Cape Breton I.]

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Frank C. Craighead, Chief, Bureau of Entomology [US]

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Colonel J.L. Ralston, Minister of National Defence [1926-30]

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Keystone “Puffer”, ca. 1927

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Site of Dusting Operations in Nova Scotia, 1927

* Whycocomagh [experimental] * Guysborough-Musgrave area [operational]

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Aerial Dusting of Spruce Budworm

n Cape Breton Island, 1927

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