Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-04-29
H PEST

THE NEWBERRY PEST
Newberry incident in the
i senate will not down. 1t came to
the front in the senate chamber the
other day. Senator Pat Harrison,
the able, eloquent and always good
natured junior senator from Mis-
sissippi, does not pose as an author
ity on animal and plant diseases,
but it is rarely the senate has been
so highly entertained and informed
as by his recent scientific discus
sion of this subject when the agri-
cultural department appropriations
were under consideration. The
senator passed over such pests as
scabbies, cattle ticks, hog cholera,
hoof and mouth disease, gypsy and
brown-tail moths, white pine bis
tiers, boll-weevils, boil worms, bean
beetles, citrus canker, Hessian
flies, chinch-bugs, and grasshoppers
and concentrated his attack upon
the latest dreaded menace to agri-
culture-the barberry bush.
On the subject of berries the SEN
ator was entirely at home. The
barberry bush, he informed the SEN
| ate, seems to thrive and prevail
in the localities represented by the
junior senator from Minnesota
(Mr. Kellogg, the senior senator
from Michigan (Mr. Townsend)
and in Wisconsin, represented in
part by Mr.. Lenroot.
Expressing full sympathy with
the wheat growers of the middle
west whose crops are menaeed by
the rust spores of the barberry
bush, Senator Harrison pointed out
that the barberry bush is not the
only berry that is a pest or threat
n to smenace the country.
Great as is the injury that may
be wrought by the barberry," he
said, at is not to be compared with
some other pests or, may I say.
diseases by the name of berry
You know what I mean. I can see
the smiles on your c~ountenances
when I mention berry pests. Sirs,
when we talk about the danger of
the berry pest the people will not
think of 'barberry' bushes; they
will think of 'Newberry' bushes, a
term taken from 'Ncwberryism,'
meaning the plundering CT the peo-
pie by the purchase of power"
Stating that he was going to vote
for the increased appropriation to
eradicate the barberry bush, he said
that if some Of the senator's who
had spoken in behalf Of the appro-
priation had shown the same zeal
in trying to eradicate the other
berry pest that is not applicable
to a few states alone, but that
reaches from Maine to the state Of
Washington, that not only blights
and destroys the wheat but affects
the ambitions of the young boy,
destroys the high ideals Of the peo-
pie and removes the last vestage of
justice and equal opportunity
Newberryism-they would have
rendered a greater service to more
people in a larger section of the
country"
The senator explained that New
berryism' distributes its spores in
a similar manner to the barberry,
only that they are not called rust
spores.
"In New York." he said, "the
spores that emanate from it might
be termed Calder spores, or those
from Newberryism in Massachus-
etts might be called Lodge spores,
or those in Michigan might be
called Townsend spores, or in
Minnesota, kellogg" spores. I
failed to specifically mention Ohio,
wherec ertain spores from Ncwber-
ryism would not be termed rust
spores but change their name to
Willis spores there"
Senator Harrison closed with a
plea that when Newberryism next
shows it's menacing head In the en-
ate that his colleagues will show
the same zeal to eradicate it that
they have shown to eliminate bar
berryism.