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Show llAKUKItllY gUAIIAM'INK TO UK 1'IjAUKO An excellent Illustration of coop- Ainltun nffj.l fnl tn ttnlitl. frnfitl oven by Interests adversely affected, was furnished by the barbotry quarantine quar-antine heating held February 2-f by tho United States Department of Agriculture. Ag-riculture. Nursery men with stocks of bnrbpiry that they might have sold and Individuals with chcrlHhpd barbet ry hedges, It was shown, havo given earnest and offectlvo assistance assist-ance In the work of eradication. Tho evidence submitted at tho hearing showed conclusively that tho common barberry, with certain other oth-er varieties of barbel ly and Mahonla nro capablo of harboilng tho black- Ltem rust of v heat and othor small I grains, that they constitute tho only moaiiB by which the disease Is communicated com-municated lo giain fields throughout much of t$o grain grovylng area of m the country and that tho p ovalenco of tho common linrbouy thtoughout this ai ca has been lcspouslblo to n consliltrnlilo degreo foi tho Hovorlty ,of Hid epidemics of black stem itist that havo frequently causod euoim-ous euoim-ous losses lo wheat and othor cereals. cer-eals. As a result of tho hearing quni-antlnc quni-antlnc monsurcs have been diafted foi tho purposo of preventing tho movement of susceptible, species of tho bnrborry and of Mahonla from other states of tho union lo Nebraska, Nebras-ka, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota Minnesota Minnes-ota Kansas, Montana, Wisconsin, I |