Show government decides to make war on mistletoe the mistletoe which Is so closely as soc with the christmas celebration tion has been found guilty and Is about to be banished from roin the national forests of the pacific slope the plant thrives wonderfully in that section of the country its leaves are so large and warlike in appearance that it 1 Is sometimes commercially cultivated and great quantities shipped to the eastern states for yuletide Sule tlde decoration but as la is generally known the plant locates on oak and other trees and in fit the northwest it soon strangles its host government forest rangers have started upon a crusade which will exterminate the plant by tearing out oat dense areas of the trailers sli six or seven years ox 01 work will be required to accomplish the purpose the too toa growths are viewed with interest hy by tourists and purely out of gentl mental regard a small amount of mistletoe will be allowed to remain for the benefit of the visiting sightseers |