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Show SEEKS FOE OF JAP BEETLE Specialist Has Been Detailed to Bring to This Country Enemy of Horticultural Pest. The Japanese beetle is going to have Its old enemies on Its trail In this country. The T'niled States department depart-ment of agriculture has sent a man to Japan to find those enemies and send them across the ocean. They will then be established In the sections of New Jersey where the beetle has gained a foothold, and they are expected ex-pected (o aid greatly in the control of the pest. The agent employed in Japan Is familiar with Japanese conditions and Is a specialist in this kind of work. It is expected that the task will require his sojourn In Japan for two or three years. While something Is known of the parasites of the Japanese beetle a great deal is still to be learned only under field conditions when' the beetle lives with all the enemies dial prey upon it. The beetle reached this country with importations of greenhouse green-house plants, and thus far apparenily has been com ,a ra t ively free from nc-lestations nc-lestations by natural enemies. |