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Show Children Cry for i 1 . snnsTv?o;-ss5?5v; I Minnesota Sato Flies I Kill Tamarack Tress I Flies are killing off the tamarack . tti-es near (Jrand Rapids. Minn., by starving (hem to death. I So declares Henry (Joldberg. forest I ranger, who has just returned from a tour through Itasca county forests. 1 1.ildherg states that he fouud the Moods full of winged insects called saw flies which feed upon the needles of leaves by means of which the tree o annfactiires Its food from the air and soil. successive assaults the (iic.-" liieratly starve the trees to death. Ti.e forest ranger stated the return of the leaf eaters may indicate a repetition repe-tition of tin- plague between l'.HKi und I'.'lii In Minnesota, when the insects killed ij.'i per cent of the merchantable merchant-able tamarack In Ihe state valued af s2."(KUmi. |