TY - CHAP DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 TI - Stop This Menace with Toxaphene (Hercules Chlorinated Camphene) T2 - 1948 Hercules Advertisements ID - sj139255z AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1948/// YR - 1948 AV - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1948 VL - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1948 AN - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1948 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/sj139255z AB - Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in the August 1948 issues of Arizona Farmer and Better Farming Methods. 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 - Grasshoppers KW - Chemical industry KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Insect pests--Control KW - Insect pests KW - Naval stores KW - Insecticides KW - Advertising, Industrial KW - Corporations LA - English ER -