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Show MONEY SOUGHT TO FIGHT PINE BLISTER BOISE. Ida.. Nov. 29 'Resolutions asking the legislatures of Idaho, Oregon, Ore-gon, Washington, Montana nnd California Cali-fornia for appropriations to help eradicate erad-icate and control the spread of white plnu blister rust, wore adopted at the third annual white pine blister rust conference, which was held in Portland. Port-land. November 22 and 23 Idaho was represented by W. H. Wicks, director of the bureau of plant lndustn, who has returned from the meeting. Before returning home Mr. Wicks vlslt'-d the northwestern potato growers grow-ers conference which closed November Novem-ber ',' t In Spokane Thla conference adopted a resolution requesting the secretary of agriculture to conduct Investigations In-vestigations on potato grading in the four northwestern states and hold public grade hearings In principal growing districts before March 1. Whlto pine blister rust Is a disease of white pine trees which has been found In British Columbia and western west-ern Washington Because th largest whlto p!no forest in the world la In Idaho, and because so far the disease has not been found in this state, officials offi-cials are taking all precautions to pre- vent its spread here. |