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Show Hay-Fever Season Ragweed, one of about 130,000 pollens known to botanists, is thoroughly detested by millions of A.mericans who annually suffer suf-fer the miseries of hayfever. Medical, experts have been unable un-able to solve the mystery of hay-fever hay-fever and treatment does little good to the victims of this malady. mal-ady. Injections are successful in some cases and partially so in others, but many sufferers have to endure their annual torture or run for the mountains or the sea shore. The eradication of ragweed, if it could be successfully accomplished, accom-plished, would probably give some relief. Most cities and states have laws aimed at insuring in-suring the elimination of growing grow-ing weeds, but they are usually ineffective. While close proximity torag-weed torag-weed and other pollens probably increases the physical discomfort of those who have hayfever, there is the probability that, when plants shed their pollen, the atmosphere at-mosphere may be permeated with the noxious substance. Anyway, Any-way, an easy fortune awaits the individual who perfects a "cure" for hayfever. |