Stop screwworms : selections from the Screwworm Eradication Collection /

"Once a plague to ranchers and farmers, the screwworm has been eradicated from the United States, Mexico, and most of Central America through the efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and many other organizations and individuals. The Screwworm Eradication Collection documents seven deca...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: National Agricultural Library (U.S.). Special Collections, United States. Agricultural Research Service, National Agricultural Library (U.S.). Screwworm Eradication Collection
Other Authors: Stewart, Lynn Jones, Fugate, Susan Hill
Format: Software eBook
Language:English
Published: Beltsville, Md. : National Agricultural Library, [2000]
Subjects:
Description
Summary:"Once a plague to ranchers and farmers, the screwworm has been eradicated from the United States, Mexico, and most of Central America through the efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and many other organizations and individuals. The Screwworm Eradication Collection documents seven decades of this extraordinary agricultural and scientific achievement. This CD-ROM sampler includes documents from the collection, comments by Dr. Edward F. Knipling, creator of the technique used in eradication, and reference bibliographies on the New World screwworm"--Insert.
Item Description:Title from disc label.
Produced by Lynn Jones Stewart, archivist, and Susan Hill Fugate, head, Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library.
"April 2000."
"Most of the material on this CD-ROM is in the public domain and may be freely distributed or copied"--Container.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 CD-ROM : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:System requirements: Windows 95 or higher, Netscape Navigator 4.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, sound card and speakers. Best performance requires a Pentium processor and 32 megabytes of RAM.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.