...Betsy Mendelsohn The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890–1901 . Robert J. Spear . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring the most important ways that indigenous people crafted...

..., as this reviewer sees it, is will anyone really listen to her advice? James A. Vlasich Southern Utah University The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901. By Robert J. Spear. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. 336 pp., $34.95...

... Equivalent? Taussig asks (189). Reveling in the irony of a hybrid plantation tree called American Hope that can t get it up (a disease-resistant Elaeis guineensis x Elaeis oleifera cross that requires hand-pollination), Taussig asks: So what is more magical, the gypsies in One Hundred Years of Solitude...

... Prairie Provinces. Despite all the romance surrounding the footloose lifestyle of these wandering harvest gypsies, the realities facing them always remained grim. Occupying the lowest rungs of the American workforce, the bindlestiffs were poorly paid, badly fed, miserably housed, and shabbily treated...

... of the Parasites of the Gypsy Moth and the Brown Tail Moth," USDA, Bureau of Entomology, Bulletin No. 91 (1911): 305 Sawyer, To Make a Spotless Orange, 62-63 Howard, Fighting the Insects, 91. 12 Russell, "War on Insects," 42-47 W. D. Hunter, "The Boll Weevil Problem," USDA, Farmers’ Bulletin No. 344...

... , 3 : 2525 – 29 , 2771 – 73 . 72. A. P. Chew , The United States Department of Agriculture: Its Structure and Functions ( Washington, DC : GPO , 1940 ), 25 ; Baker et al., Century of Service , 58 ; Sandy Liebhold , “Gypsy Moth in North America,” Oct. 29 , 2003 , US...

... of the Colorado beetle, the gypsy moth, and the cotton boll weevil evoked the introduction of the best-known arsenicals?Paris green, lead arsenate, and calcium arse- nate. In the early 1920s, R. A. Wardle and P. Buckle complained: "The in- secticide manufacturer and the agriculturalist have preferred to imitate...

... it was due to the chronically vile conditions that . . . this year happen to have crossed the line into unbearable disaster. Reiterating a favorite charge among reformers, Linsingen blamed the colonization policies of Frederick the Great for luring discharged soldiers, gypsies, and wandering scoundrels...