NEW ENGLAND FRUIT MEETINGS AND TRADE SHOW 



The New England Fruit Meetings and Trade Show will be held at 

 the New Hampshire Highway Hotel, Concord, New Hampshire. The meet- 

 ings are scheduled for January 6 and 7, 1971. 



The hotel is accessible from all major highways. Routes 3 and 

 93, which lead to Concord, are accessible from anywhere in Massa- 

 chusetts. Persons coming from Western Massachusetts and Southern 

 Vermont may find the most convenient route to be Routes 9 or 10 to 

 Keene, New Hampshire, and then Routes 9, 202, 89 and 93 to the 

 Highway Hotel . 



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PESTICIDE SAFETY IS YOUR BUSINESS 



C.J. Gil gut 

 Department of Plant Pathology 



The ban on the use of DDT for control of pests of agricultural 

 crops may save an occasional bird, but it has already killed some 

 people, according to a news release by USDA on September 4, 1970. 



Here it is. 



"USDA Urges Caution in Use of Some DDT Substitutes:" 



"The U. S. Department of Agriculture today warned farmers and 

 other pesticide users across the Nation to take extra precaution 

 when using some of the more toxic chemical alternatives to DDT for 

 protection of crops and other resources from pests. 



The Department is currently investigating a number of accident- 

 al human poisonings in North Carolina and elsewhere apparently re- 

 sulting from misuse of parathion, non-persistent but highly toxic 

 insecticide. Preliminary findings of USDA investigators indicate 

 that in most cases the North Carolina poisonings can be attributed 

 to improper handling or misuse of products containing parathion. 

 Thus far, four deaths and an undetermined number of illnesses have 

 been blamed on the chemical in the State's tobacco growing areas 



