| Show IMPORTED PLANT PESTS EXACT HEAVY PRICE FROM FARMERS FOR impatience IMPAT impatience to make foreign plants quickly available by leportier lepor ahrin the in quantities quan title into the netted swea hai bal resulted in the tile of plant disease au an I 1 pent pests responsible for or eno enormous rinous annual lew te to farmer farmers gardeners gardners garde gard ners ere forest for fat o owner aaers end and to the en tire bre antry losses log which will gill tale take only a few eare ears to ettl equal t ur war debt drain drains on the resources of the I 1 tilted lilted state states contin continue ve la in spite of heavy expenditure expenditures for control by the state states the federal government ani individual juit just now there la is being tying expressed a wave of objection to the restriction restrictions end and safeguards lafe guarde on the entry of plant plants enforced by the united states de part apartment ment of agriculture for the par pur boie of new aul additional plant enemies thu thin appear to be based on a failure to appreciate the riek risk from the freer entry of inch plant plants and an unwillingness to wait aft the few years necessary nee esary for them to become available under safer in ethoda of introduction author authorize izet I 1 by the de apartment part ment 1 the price wo we are paying for such la in the past cau can bo be best li a few to have at the abor test no the beautiful effect of a fringe of Jap ausse flowering cher riem alone along our riverside river eldes driveway ant and walk walks led 11 during the this period of stimulated e t fur for thie this tree trot to its it imp oration lu IL inch lre size and form as an to introduce the oriental fruit worm title this pet pest w now firmly estal in half a dozen it st t 0 an ani with wile foothold in al the bolth and wadie went west promises 1 to be one if 01 the th nit most serious of mr our fruit ea en e see nt tucking particularly abe A and tul other tone alone fraits fri it but aru aiso tho the apple pear poor ete vo no ef eo elgg 1 remedy for this i ewt et lias bas been found 1 an I 1 it now threaten threatens losses 1 which may noon soon total tota I 1 millions of dollar dollars annually annu aly will inan li ignee aas to havo spent a few years in de developing eloping euch such trees by the biter rifer hor cultural methods of pro propagation from bul buls or cutt cuttings lingg cotil hove clo closed ted the door of opportunity to this pest the blister tuat chien now threat ene ens our white pine forests both of tho eastern united state states and the great mountain regions of tho the northwest was as introduce I 1 through the unwilling ness of our own people to take tho the trouble and accept the additional coat cost of pro lacing this native tree from ice eel I 1 unless controlled til deseae may repeat for our white pines the sad slid etory story of the chestnut disease ie Is universal agreement ai to tho the neals ny it V for protection from the entry of new nev plant pests some corn com potent body must make male the Ir tiona with to the restrictions and congress has that responsibility on the deportment of agriculture and its hundred hundreds of llant ilant epolite alises liny ny determination male 1 bol t habte er r tty ity is ut cameda subject to t criticism i by persons whose interests or pleasures arc re a attested constructive betru alve arit selam la Is a II wry ayi valuable val but ai as a banie bamis fer for asih th critie stat it ie is important atiat t bat the es sail bil reasons for the tion houll ti tx tie e andemio und cretI d it ie is aleo also important blat a modest allt of patience be exer earciel elsel lu in awaiting the outcome of the th provisions provie lans of the d part apartment ment for making all plant able through nietos that entail the least rink risk to exclude euch such undesirable wil I 1 there are thou thousand sanda of them w wilting to be added to on stock already alre alv much too large the depart ment of agriculture under authority given by congress has placed laced tion and safeguards ou on ape entry of arost plants on the other hani haul the department has ha wie ele e le it possible ioe los sible to bring in any of these restricted planta plants anjer eifer sifer horticultural methods and in qu quint tle euffa trient bent to meet all in trod tion ad nod experimental needs tb protection th system i is gi the lie eutry tto atry from new peete wilt it W b evident to anya e who atil examine the startling record of pet peat importation prior pilaf to th the enforcement of kos itral A and the tile rord of and exel of peete pests un der the exir exia tiD estein |
