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Show ft ft ft THIS GERMANS GERMS The California State Council of Defense issues a warning against poisonous pollen, said to havo been rhlpped by Germans, with the Idea of destroying our wheat crop. The Germans showed that this is one of their games by a previous effort to infect the seed supplies ot Roumanla. There is little doubt that they will try this thing out in this- country. If they could infect any considerable consider-able portion of our seed supplies, It would be the hardest blow our government' gov-ernment' has had yet to meet. A general crop failure would result in suffering compared with which our previous experienco has ' been the least trltlo. Thoro Is a big Job beforo tho United Uni-ted States Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, The State Agriculture Bureaus nnd Experiment Stations, to head off any such attempt. These scientists should Issue bulletins making It-clear how any such infection would first show Itself. Farmers should bo very carofiil ot whom they buy seed. Salesmen representing rep-resenting unknown houses should be turned down; It Is a tlmo for buying buy-ing socd supplies only of peoplo known for years to bo reputable. In tho meantime tho agriculture bureaus bu-reaus should carefully Investigate tho record ot seed houses, and the farmers farm-ers should be warned not to buy ot douVttuV parties. . . I v . -! '- (;- . I . i ' f I ':& v |