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Show Spotting Saboteurs Plant parasites and diseases which come to America from foreign for-eign lands cost L nele Sam about 3 billions per year. But the U. S. is busy trying to stop these saboteurs. A chum of plant quarantine stations has been established around our borders where incoming plants must pass rigid inspections. Tliese photos take you to one of these "agricultural IJlis Islands" at Hoboken, A'. J. ! v- f 1 , s. i r i . f George Becker, chief entomologist at tlie Hoboken plant quarantine quar-antine station, pointing to an enlarged picture of a new beetle, which is found in plants coming from South A merica. 'jr - Inspectors examining a ship- L ' mpnt o orchids from England. . j I y j Yes, even the ultra-aristocratic I , f ; j l, VMrf orchid may have diseases and lice. f":f?-t1f.'14 Inspectors examining a shipment ship-ment of orchids from England. Yes, even the ultra-aristocratic orchid may have diseases and lice. I if rr Scale Sleuth . . . Inspector Herbert Her-bert Sanford studying an imported import-ed lymbidium orchid with a powerful pow-erful hand lens. He is looking for scale insects. Close Work . . . It takes a microscope mi-croscope to spot some species of bug and blight saboteurs. Here Chief Inspector Emil Kostal examines ex-amines imported plants. Lethal Chamber . . . tt orkers of the quarantine station are removing re-moving cases of plants from a lethal chamber, where the insects with which the plants were infected were slain with gas fumes. |