For more than 35 years, retired pest management professional (PMP) Phil Allegretti has been amassing an unusual collection: He has dozens of cans, bottles, dusters and other paraphernalia of pesticides past. It started in 1980 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, when Allegretti — then president of Panhandle Pest Control in nearby Naples — encountered a 1950s […]
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