Show v PLANT PESTS COST I AMERICA BILLIONS I w WASHINGTON ASHI I-eb I I 13 3 Dope peddlers bootleggers and diamond smugglers hale havo odd schemes to fool Uncle Sam Sams Sam's sharp eyed men But their schemes do not cost ost the tt ta- tax taxpayer payer nearly so much as a the pests th t hit slip Into the tho country iho j figures that the taxpayer Is payIng to plant pests at the taCO rate of oC about two billion bUllon a year the American Nature association says nys therefore It will be seen just how tnt tnt- Important im important the plant is ls Just as the metropolitan police ite- ite de departments Ie- Ie tabulate all 1111 the dope on In Ina ona ona a law breaker there thoro Is a II rogues gal gal- lery al- al allery lery hery of the plant world orld Tho states slates know what hat the chestnut blight and the white pine blister rust bala luau o odone done The TIle country knows J the experIence with the boll weevil One Unoo or of tho the original entries to bo be brought to this land from Europe wis as the lIes He- He Heslan sIan fly which came in straw the tho sol sol- soldIers sol soldiers diers use used to bell bed their horses That fly still costs the country the tho price ot of Ithe the Revolutionary war every year be- be because be cause of what It does doea to wheat I be-I |