Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
fIGHTING The SAN JOSE e0cALE

ders the ravages of the insect slight.
Fungus diseases which attack trees
and plants cause an equally vast
amount of damage and loss OF money
and crops. The bitter rot is disease
which attacks apples As the annual
apple crop is valued at about fifty mil
lion dollars its prevention is of great
Importance to fruit growers. Most peo-
pie who eat apples are familiar with
the large and small brown spots which
sometimes almost cover the fruit and
make Ii unfit to eat From this dis
ease alone one years loss amounted 10
Sl0,000,0OO.
Investigations and experiments made
by the Department Of Agriculture shoH
that there are nine fungus diseases
alone from which apple trees may SUI
fer while the list Of other fruit tree
diseases is almost equally long -
pie, peach, pear, ounce, plum. on. rr'
and other trees all suffer from some dis
ease or other. while even grape. straw
berries and other similar vine plants are
by no means immune. In al these dis
eases the most effective method of eradi-
eating the damage is by spraying.
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With such a vast field of agricultural
work dependent upon freedom from in
sects and fungus growths the appoint
ment Of the new insecticide and fungi
eide board to enforce the insecticfde
and fungicide act is an important step
in the work of the Agricultural De-
partment. Not only are trees. vines
and animals open to the ravages OF va
rious diseases, but all the various
kinds of vegetables are likewise SUBJ
ject to their inroads, and work along
this line is also being enthusiastically
undertaken.
The law, as approved by Congress. is
not one which can be easily evaded by
"get-rich- quick concerns, while the pen
altieS promised those who do transgfcss
the law are sufficiently unpleasant to at
least cause considerab thought regard
ing the matter. A fine of $500 can be
inflicted upon a manufacturer found vio-
lating the law the first time, while sub
seuuent offenses can be punished by a
fine of $500 or Imprisonment for one year.
or both.
There are twenty-eight regulations
which the manufacturer has TO carry out,
or which otherwise concern the mater.
These rules were formulated by COM
mittee of three representing three de-
pa tments. They were George 4. Nc
Cabe of the Treasury Department r T..
Cabell of the Department of Agriculture
and Charles Earl of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor.
The efforts of the insecticide and fungi
eide board will not be directed so much
toward the retailer and wholesaler as
toward the manufacturer himself. For
this reason no retailer o. whol sale uea Ct
VII be held respor sible for goods soli.
provided he can show guaranty from
the finn from which he purcLs Ses the
article stating that it is not misbranded
or adulterated. Not only does the law
apply TO the states and territories and
the District OF Columbia, hut u Alaska
and to our insular possessions as well
many purely communists enterprises and
whole forests in Savoe belong to the
people. in which one may cut freely what
timber he desires for his own use or for
firewood. During the flood in Paris last
spring. for instance. in spite Of the theory
that the law of supply and demand regu-
lates the price of food. the government
closed shops that attempted to raise tie
price of food during the scarcitS, and
police We're sent TO rescue such mercenary
shopkeeperS from being lynched after the
populace had wrecked their shops. And
the French are no reSpecterS OF persons.
When NJ. Chuchard. head Of the Magasins
du Louvre, at his death failed to leave
the great stores TO his employees, did
Madame Bouccicault in the case OF the
Bon Marche the people hooted his funeral
cortege and there We're several encounters
with the police who We're there TO pro-
tect the hearsc from assault These are
5 gns of the times.
While revolution today is in the air
not even the leaders of the movement
can tell when il will come. Today AL
Paris may he playing In the sunshine and
dreaming only of peace. Suddenly q
great industrial crisis may stir the entire
nation. One false step, suca as the shoot
ing of strikers, may precipitate the great
psychological moment and the revolution
Will rise like a whirlwind.
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