Dead cows on a Georgia field: Mapping the cultural landscape of the post-World War II American pesticide controversies

From: Environmental History | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Buhs, Joshua Blu | Copyright information

The winter of 1957-1958 was the worst that the American South had seen in fifty years, the mercury hovering below freezing for weeks and snow falling across the Southern coastal plain. For farmers in Decatur County, Georgia, however, April was the cruelest month, breeding despair out of a dead land. Throughout the early part of the year, they had been losing cattle, a trend that reached its culmination in early spring. As quail coveys broke up and the male birds staked out breeding territorie...

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