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| This picture, taken in Ohio around 1922, shows one of the earliest efforts to apply insecticides with an airplane. A biplane is being used to dust catalpa groves attacked by the catalpa sphinx. It is flying around 80 miles an hour at an altitude of from 20 to 35 feet.
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