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Updated: May 15, 2025
The people who do not kill must act, independently. "You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live." "In no country in the world," says Mr. C.L. Marlatt, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "do insects impose a heavier tax on farm products than in the United States."
A little later an investigation committee composed of Rev. Oscar McGill of Seattle, and Rev. Elbert E. Flint, Rev. Jos. P. Marlatt, Jake Michel, Robert Mills, Ernest Marsh, E. C. Dailey, Commissioner W. H. Clay, Messrs. Fawcett, Hedge, Ballou, Houghton and others from Everett, made a close examination of the grounds.
These witnesses were three ministers of the gospel of different denominations, Elbert E. Flint, Joseph P. Marlatt, and Oscar H. McGill.
C. L. Marlatt, has started for Japan, China, and Java, for the purpose of trying to find the original home of the famous San José scale an insect which has been doing enormous damage in the apple, pear, peach, and plum orchards of the United States and if he finds the original home of this scale, it is hoped that some natural enemy or parasite will be discovered which can be introduced into the United States to the advantage of our fruit-growers.
They relate to cattle, horses, sheep and stored grain products of many kinds. Even cured tobacco has its pest, a minute insect known as the cigarette beetle, now widespread in America and "frequently the cause of very heavy losses." The millions of the insect world are upon us. Their cost to us has been summed up by Mr. Marlatt in the table that appears below.
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