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Grow More This Year...With the New Cotton Poison
Toxaphene (Hercules Chlorinated Camphene)
- Part of 1948 Hercules Advertisements
- 1948
Advertisement for Toxaphene, a toxicant manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use in pesticides and insecticides. This advertisement appeared in the June 1948 issues of Progressive Farmer, Southern Agriculturalist, and Better Farming Methods, among other publications.
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.
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Hercules Incorporated. “Grow More This Year...With the New Cotton Poison.” 1948 Hercules Advertisements, 1948. Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1948. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/wp988k64r.
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