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Common Death. The Mississippi fishkill is still a live subject in Washington, but Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman announced: "None of the evidence presented was scientifically adequate, in the judgment of the department, to justify withdrawal of endrin, aldrin or dieldrin from farm...
...spraying on these pleasant and harmless creatures. In vivid language, she tells how DDT spraying to protect elm trees from Dutch elm disease nearly wiped out the bird populations of many Midwestern cities, how fruitless attempts to exterminate the imported fire ant of the South by airplane dusting with dieldrin had dire effects on many kinds of wildlife...
...Anopheles should be prevented from starting any new infections, and old ones will eventually burn out because the parasites lose their reproductive powers after two or three years. In areas where the mosquitoes are resistant to DDT, another insecticide, dieldrin, will be used. Where the mosquitoes bite in the open, preventive drugs will be used in addition to spraying. Example: the entire table-salt supply for the Amazon Valley is now being laced with chloroquine to build up the inhabitants' resistance...
Then the researchers dipped their screening strips in dieldrin, a powerful, non-evaporating fly poison, and tacked them up again. The flies took refuge on them in swarms-and died in five seconds. The poison remained effective for more than 16 weeks, slaying battalions of flies. The Cornell scientists believe that this anti-fly tactic is better than indiscriminate spraying of dairy barns and yards. The poison stays on the screening, never strays into the milk...