Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang (vicinity), China. Gambusia minnow hatchery in a spring at the edge of the rice fields. When the gambusia were put here, herons and other birds start to eat them. Thus the spring had to be covered with loosely woven mats; when the cattle trampled these a fence had to be built
Summary
Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. L.L. Williams.
Title and other information from print in lot.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Temp. note: owibatch6
Tags
Date
01/01/1939
Location
chefang
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html