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Show DISEASE-CARRYING INSECTS CAUSE ECONOMIC LOSS Washington, March 23. That there is great economic loss to the people of the United States, through Insects that carry disease, Is shown by Dr. L. O. Howard of the bureau of entomology in a pamphlet just Issued by the department de-partment of agriculture. He declares for instance, that the development ot the whole state of New Jersey haa been berlously retarded by mosquito.? in sections which are admirably adapted adapt-ed to dairy farming in other respects, but this business had to be given up owing to the evils of mosqultos on tao cattle. Many rich lands of the soutn cannot bo developed as they would be, he says, on account of the mosquito. Dr. Howard deolares that typhoid is not a national scourge as it has been called, but rather a "national reproach" re-proach" or a "national crime," for its main source, the fly evil, can be controlled. con-trolled. Dr. Howard says that many diseases lire transmitted by insects. Yellow fever Is carried by one brand or mosquito mos-quito and malaria by another. The common house fly is an active agent In the dissemination of typhoid fever. Bubonic plague is carried by fleas. The so-called spotted fever of the northern Rocky Mountains is trans-; trans-; mitted by a species of tick Just a j Texas fever Is given to cattle by the southern cattle tick. |