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Show THE CITIZEN t HOWARD PREDICTS FATALITY POISON SPRAYING HAS FAILED TO SHOW EFFECTIVE RESULTS AND CHIEFS ADMIT DEFEAT. Insects Destroy Millions in Property and are Submerging Mankind. WE reel that this pest eventually is going graze, because the animals would die. to cover the United States, that is, Sprayed fruit loses its flavor bewere it can live. Again admitting cause poison destroys everything it failure. touches, and human life is killed. Now the department advocates the Railroads spray their mobilization of wasps to fight against with poison spray to kill the weeds farm crop pests. We have such an and vegetation and signs are posted example right here which shows the warning cattle and sheep owners to keep their stock out. fallacy in such an argument or proOutside of the federal expenditures cedure. On the Great Salt Lake are to tell farmers how to successfully millions of salt flies. The Saltair management imported spiders to kill the combat insects with poison, every flies, then wasps were brought in to state expends other millions to fight the pests, and so far unsuccessfully, kill the spiders, with the present result that now we have all three pests according to all reports we have reat the lake, and no headway has been ceived up to the present time. The average individual then asks, made in either direction or the exterhow can we successfully combat inmination of the pests. sects ? Now it is the intention of the deWe suggest that the only sane waj partment to import another batch of parasites to eat up the com borer, to not only control the growing inthe initial cost being $40,000. That sects, but how to eventually destroy will add just another pest to our large then all, is by sane trapping. HAVE two of the worst poison-ous calamities ever visited upon any people in the history of the world they are prohibition, which has resulted in death poisoning of 125,000 people since its enforcement upon the people, and poison spraying of our fruits and vegetables. Over 75,000 people were arrested last year for liquor violations, not counting hundreds of thousands who were never caught who are running wide open in all the larger cities of the Union and who openly defy the law. In regard to arsenic spraying to kill the worms on our fruit, the damage to human health cannot be calculated because of suppression. L. O. Howard, who for 55 years was chief of the bureau of etymology, established in 1862 under Abraham Lincoln, the department has grown so fast that at the present time it takes $142,598,047 to run the agricultural department, most of which large sum is spent in insect extermination. That the department has been an absolute failure is seen in the immense increase of fruit destroying insects, a majority of which have been imported from all parts of the world. In 1862 it is an outstanding fact that m right-of-wa- ys Imported In order to combat the insects, other insects have been imported to prey upon those already here, and this endless chain has been continued for so long that now we have the greatest crop of fruit destroying insects found anywhere in the world. The work of our scientific men has been directed in a narrow channel of killing the insects with poison. This arsenic spray not only kills all plant lift, but gets only a few of the hatched worms, with the result that insect crops are growing too fast for us to' successfully combat them via the poison route. Testifying before a sub-commit- tee at a hearing on the agricultural apbill, Dr. Marlatt stated that propriation the normal spread of the com borer is something that cannot be prevented. We are ready to say right off the roller that destroys trees. No. 5 is the beet webworm moth that destroys sugar beets. No. 6 is the, curlicue that works on the skin of the apple, making it appear as if it had smallpox. No. 7 is the tomato moth. No. 8 is the armykorm moth that live on all kinds of grass and grain. No 9 works on the ash and elm trees. No. 10 is a European com pith borer No. 11 moth. is a tobacco moth. No. 12 is a celery moth laying its eggs on celery. No. 13 is a pinching beetle that cuts hardwood trees. No. 14 is a hickory and oak moth. No. 15 works on tobacco and hardwoods, etc. W. H. Pool, a Utah farmer, who has given much time and study regarding insect control, finally developed the idea of a trap and he has had great success. When east last summer he met Henry Ford and his trap was given a thorough test. W. D. Swartz-mille- r, superintendent of Henry Fords 16,000 acre farm said that it was his conviction that the insect trap is the most effective weapon yet devised for the extermination of the much dreaded insects. He saw the traps working About nine bushels, of insects were caught on a farm near by. With such a trap in every orchard there is absolutely no need of poisoning any more fruit and it can develop as nature provided and the health of the people protected and assured as far as eating fruit is concerned. Of course we realize that any old there were but few pestiferous insects in this country. It is also an outstanding fact that Howard in a speech made three years ago at Oakland, California, stated that unless the insect progress was brought to a sudden halt the bugs would eat us up in another 50 years. Continuing he said that the insects inhabited the earth 500 years prior to man, thus giving the insects a prior right over man, and under the present progress of the insects, man would soon again become extinct. No effort has ever been made to destroy the insects. All endeavor has been directed against the extermination of the eggs or worms, while the adult insects have been allowed to continue in good health. lay the eggs that hatch the worms that eat up the apples. No. 2 is the grass webbworm moth that eats up the grass and stunts the hay growth. No. 3 is the South American luna moth, which works on ornamental and hardwood trees. No. 4 is the leaf Pestiferous Insects that annually destroy millions of crop dollars in the Nation. list and we will be farther away from our goal than ever. $10,000,000 issaid to have been spent in an eastern state to kill the com borer and no results gained. Many cases of fruit poisoning have come to the attention of the authorities. Just recently, Herman Harms, state chemist, called attention to the people in a notice published in the Salt Lake Telegram, issue of Decem- ber 15, for the people to thoroughly wash and wipe all apples to destroy the sprayed poison, as the general health of the people was jeopardized. Who is to Blame? Why not punish the people who put the poison on the fruit? There have been numerous fruit poisoning cases in this state. When an orchard is sprayed, the farmer dare not turn his cattle into it to If every fanner had only one trap in. his orchard, it would not be long before all insects would be destroyed. An insect trap will catch as many as from one to ten quarts of insects in a season. An apple moth will lay about 150 eggs and will propagate three broods a year. Kill the adult and there will be no eggs. Poison spraying does not kill the moth; it only flies to another tree and lays its eggs. Injurious insects fly only at night, and they can easily be trapped by artificial light and scent. In tne state of Utah we have about 5o0 injunous moths, beetles and weevils, and all of them are susceptible to trapping. Fruit Destroyers. In the picture herewith we show some of the most injurious insects. No. 1 shows the coddling moth. These farmer can work the traps and quite naturally scientific men are against it because they will not have any jobs should the farmers once take up the trap instead of relying upon the federal department to figure out poisonous ways to combat insect life. Why not try a new tack on the insect. We have tried poison with failure, then why remain in the rut? Let us try a new method and one which looks to us as a sane course to pursue and preserve the health of our people. It - would be good logic for congress to send a man to Utah to work with Mr. Pool and spend some of the money in a cause that will surely bring results. 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