Deseret Evening News | 1908-03-25 | Page 8 | To Exterminate Expensive Pests

TO EXTERMINATE ATE EXPENSIVE SHE PESTS Mr Scott of Kansas Wants Con Congress Congress gress gross to Appropriate Washington March 21 In II explain explaining explaining XI ing the tho of thu Uti agricultural appropriation hill bill Mr tr Scott S of Kan Kansas I sas In 10 the tho house bouse hon 1 oC at representatives lo to tor clay dav 1111 called attention n to the ravages of the tho brown bron tall moths maths and the th Texas cattle tick UJ Tho ho order former ho he said wore rapidly destroying dc the tho groves unit and forests of the tho New Englund states while the Texas lick tick hurt had been one of tho the greatest posts jost known The Tho tick ho itu declared was van os responsible for tor the quarantine lino which for Cor nearly II Ia 11 20 0 years hart hod stretched across tie tIle country front ono ocean to the tho other The rho an nn annual nual cost of maintaining that line lino to 10 different states slates and the nation was flax hardly less than That how however however ever 0 he h sold said was t Item inflicted indicted upon tho the country by h the cat cattle Cattle tle tick Lick Tho presence ot of the tick he stud said depreciates tho prim u of t f every oel head of oC below the quarantine line Hue while It deprives the tho northern of the theu market u they would otherwise o find In tho rho southern states for Cor their hili stock The Tho loss lOll to the lie north could not even Ien ho bo guessed at but hut he estimated tho the annual loss IONS suffered by b the tho states slat south of the Iho line IIno could not ho bo brit lelH than S Ire Ife therefore mild sai that It no argument to Justify a II most liberal appropriation from flom tho federal treasury for fur eradicating these two rive pests pet mill the tho th committee hind had rec recommended ed In each case cac