Abstract
Since the insecticide and fungicide industry must share chemicals with the all-out war effort, the future as to the supply of such chemicals is not readily predictable. Comparatively large supplies of most of the necessary chemicals are either available in the United States or available to the United States; but since we have no idea as to the length of the war, we have no idea as to the chemicai supplies necessary for carrying on the war to a successful conclusion. In April 1942, Dr. R. C. Roark, of the Department of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, published in the Journal of Economic Entomology an estimated list of the major chemicals consumed annually as insecticides and fungicides. This was as follows:
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