TY - CHAP DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 TI - Delta Cotton Growers: For Aerial Dusting Use Toxaphene T2 - 1949 Hercules Advertisements ID - 5m60qs568 AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1949/// YR - 1949 AV - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1949 VL - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1949 AN - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1949 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5m60qs568 AB - Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in Clarksdale Delta Farm News and Memphis Commercial Appeal. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified its business to encompass a variety of industrial products, including pine and paper chemicals, synthetics, pigments, polymers, and cellulose. KW - Toxaphene KW - Chemical industry KW - Research, Industrial KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Insect pests--Control KW - Insect pests KW - Naval stores KW - Insecticides KW - Advertising, Industrial KW - Corporations LA - English ER -