Wednesday Trivia
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Sep 142004
Q: In the time of the Great Depression, agriculture was a
practice made much harder by drought and grasshoppers. To ease such
hardship, the college’s Experiment Station found a remedy for the
severe outbreak of peach mosaic in orchards. How much money did
fruit farmers save with this cure?
A: The Experiment Station ended up saving fruit farmers about
$1.2 million with their peach mosaic remedy.
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