We're not in Kansas Anymore
1954 3¢ Kansas Territorial Centennial with ‘FIGHT OUR INSECT ENEMIES’ slogan cancel.
Believing that spraying crops and people with noxious chemicals would protect troops, kill insects and feed the whole world, the scorched earth campaign has been in motion since the 1850’s. Spanish Influenza started in the dust bowl of Kansas in 1918, killing a million young healthy adults. The first mature generation to have grown up eating foods and using products laced with toxic chemicals, neither the earth nor the human body had ever experienced this kind of chemical impact, and it became quickly widespread by the turn of the 19th century.
Believing that spraying crops and people with noxious chemicals would protect troops, kill insects and feed the whole world, the scorched earth campaign has been in motion since the 1850’s. Spanish Influenza started in the dust bowl of Kansas in 1918, killing a million young healthy adults. The first mature generation to have grown up eating foods and using products laced with toxic chemicals, neither the earth nor the human body had ever experienced this kind of chemical impact, and it became quickly widespread by the turn of the 19th century.