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...Passed a bill providing $100,000 for the eradication of a European chicken pest which has infected poultry in a number of states and giving the Department of Agriculture power to fight all contagious diseases of poultry. (Went to House...
...Passed the Senate bill appropriating $100,000 to fight the chicken pest. (Went to President...
Twenty years ago the muskrat was often considered a worthless pest Dy farmers. Their skins brought as little as 25 cents apiece, and the swampy land in which they live was looked upon as valueless and unproductive. Today, muskrat fur is in constant demand at good prices and some muskrat swamps are now worth far more than nearby arable soil. In proportion as irrigation projects are reducing the swamp area of the country, both the muskrat and his habitat are gaining steadily in value...
...pacifism," Colonel Browning believes lies in military training. "The college man has never been as enthusiastic about the military unit in his particular college or university as he should be. Perhaps he fails to realize that through military training he gets the best innoculation now known, against the worst pest in the worst--war. Just as men are protected against the most terrible diease by vaccination, we give them protection against the worst ill of all by a training which will serve them in good stead, should they be called at some some future time...
Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been the inroads upon the cotton plant by the insect pest, that including the present year, there have been short crops for three years running. Slack demand and low prices can account in part for the small 8,000,000-bale crop of 1921; and to a much lesser extent for the 9,000,000-bale crop of 1922. During the past year, however...