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Show the doctors' fees. For the employer it means the loss of labor at a time perhaps per-haps when.it would be of greatest value. If it does not mean the actual act-ual loss of labor to the employer it will mean a loss In the efficiency of his labor. To the farmers It may mean the loss of their crops by want of cultivation. It will always mean the non-cultivation or imperfect cultivation cul-tivation of thousands of acres of valuable val-uable land. It means a listless activity activ-ity in the worlds work that counts mightily against the wealth producing power of the people. "Finally it means from 2,000,000 to 5.000,000 or more days of sickness, with all Its attendant distress, pain of body and mental depression to some unfortunate unfor-tunate individuals of those five states. It has been demonstrated that the malaria ma-laria mosquito can be exterminated both in tropical and 6eml-tropical countries, and tho enormous economic loss of malaria can be prevented. The progressive men of the 60uth are beginning be-ginning to realize that the problem which confronts them is serious and of far reaching consequences, and it will not be long before this obstacle to southern progress is attacked with all the weapons w hich modern 'science has furnished. It will mean the be ginning of a new era in the growth and expansion of the south, and it cannot como too soon." Keep Land Idle The richest soil in the United States, excelled only by the productivity produc-tivity of the Nile valley, is in the delta' region in Mississippi. Some day, says Prof. Glenn W. Horrick, It will be tho richest and most populous region In the union. It lies along the western part of the state, extending ex-tending from the mouth of the Yazoo river north neatly to the Tennessee line, and outside of Egypt it has no agricultural rival in the whole world. Yet rich as It is and great as are Its possibilities, the scourge of malaria ma-laria has kept much of it in its primitive prim-itive wild forest, barred out Immigration Immi-gration and forced the price of the land down to a more fraction of its intrinsic value. Land hungry as the average American has been for gen- cratlons, and still Is, yet he cannot successfully faco the peril of malaria, with Its toll of shortened life, lessened efficiency and ultimate death. It is a matter of record that the thousands of people who would hasten to aid in making this region the most productive produc-tive in America are kept away by the malaria mosquito. It Is the reason why thousands of acres of th most fertile land on the contlnentensy of access and close to good markets, are to-day the haunt of doer and bear. It is an example of the enormous toll the south pays to malaria. No one other thing has don so much to retard its progress. Prof. Herrick, formerly connected with the College of Agriculture of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, says: "We must now consider briefly what .6.10,000 or 1,000,000 cases of chills and fever in one year means. For laboring men It means an Immense Im-mense loss of their time, together with the doctors' fees In many instances. If members of their families other than themselves are affected it may also I mean a los6 of time, together with |