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Show H MAKINQ WAR ON IN8ECT8. M "Set a Bug to Catch a Bug" Now tho BB Accepted Motto. Bfl i Tho orthodox way to dlsposo of a BB noxious Insect Is to Import from for- Bfl elgn parts a beneficent Insect which BB will attack and kill It. This Is tho Bfl J plan which tho guardians of certain BB J Massachusetts parks aro considering Bfl I for tho extermination of tho gypsy nnd Bfl I brown-tnll moths. Thero Is an Insect, Bfl It appears, which regards tho gypsy HB p moth as Its natural quarry, and a Bfl good-sized Importation of theso crea- Bfl S tures would undoubtedly do tho work Bfl of a great many Industrious men with BB jj spraying machlnos. It Ib' just tho samo BB f method of procedure which has been Bfl adopted to fight the San Jose scale, BB I which Is Itself supposed to bo an tin- Bfl 1 portatton from Hawaii or Australia. BB Tho department of agriculture has lm- Hflj ' ported from China an Insect which Bfl l! preys upon tho San Jose scale, and ! i these aro raised In cages of netting and distributed to the fruit growers of the far West Sot a bug to catch i a bug may well be tho agriculturist's motto. According to a recent est!-mato, est!-mato, the havoc wrought by a dozen species of Insects causes this country h an oxpenso of moro than 1300,000,000 BB a year. Theso aro tho chinch bug, tho BBj grasshopper, tho Hessian fly, the pota- BBj to bug, tho San Joso scalo, tho grain BBj weovll, tho 'apple worm, the army BBJ worm, the cabbago worm, tho boll Bfl weevil, tho boll worm and the cotton BBj worm. Tho chlof difficulty Is that the BBJ Imported bugs may be Just as objec- BBJ tionable as the domestic, though In BBJ dlfforont ways. Now York Evening J |