Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1918 — Fumigation on Mexican Border. [ARTICLE]

Fumigation on Mexican Border.

The latest disinfection project which has ever been undertaken in this country, and probably the largest in the world, was recently begun by the United States department of agriculture along the Mexican border. Five fumigation’houses are to be erected at a cost approximately of $50,000 for the disinfection of freight cars, motor trucks and wagons entering the United States from Mexico loaded with products that might introduce Insect enemies, especially the pink bollworm of cotton. The largest house will accommodate fifteen freight cars. Each house will be equipped with apparatus and plant for the generation and dis* ; tribution of hydrocyanic-acid gas.