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Show SEEKS FOE OF JAP BEETLE Specialist Has Been Detailed to Bring to This Country Enemy of Horticultural Pest. The Japanese beetle ls going to have Its old enemies on Its trail In this country. The United Stales department depart-ment of agriculture has sent a man to Japan to find those enemies and send them across the ocean. They will then be established In the seel Inns of New Jersey where the beetle bus gained a foothold, and tbey are expected ex-pected to aid greatly In the control of the pest. The agent employed in Japan Is familiar with Japanese conditions and Is a specialist In this kind of work. It ls expected that the task will require his sojourn In Japan for two or throe years. While something Is known of the parasites of the Japanese beello n LH-eat deal Is still to be learned only under Held conditions when! Iho beetle lives with nil the enemies that prey upon If. The beetle reached this country with Importations of gr - house plants, and thus far apparently has been comparatively free from molestations mo-lestations by natural enemies. |