Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1912 — Importing Plant Diseases. [ARTICLE]

Importing Plant Diseases.

The spread of crop diseases and pests over the world is startlingly illustrated by the presence of the European potato wart disease in Newfoundland, where it awaits shipment to the United States. Once landed in this country, it will surely spread over the nation. It might bring the greatest suffering to our poor, who find in the potato the cheapest of foods in normal years, and it would surely work great hardship upon farmers. Tet we have no quarantine law against such peats! , One would be justified fronJ this in the suspicion that only the most ignorant of men ever get into the house or senate. How long will this criminal negligence be tolerated? This disease was first observed in Hungary 16 yean ago. It has spread with great rapidity and is recognised M a danger to the wholeindustry.— Farm and Fireside.