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Imrrow attack tomatoes, peppers, beans, and other garden pro- 

 duce. The cornstalk l)orer is a more recent introduction. 

 h cynics from abroad and does great (himage.not onl\- to corn 

 anil broom-corn but to celery, beets, spinach, rhubarb, asters, 

 cosmos, zinnia, hdlKhock, gladiolus, dahlia and other plants. 

 It was first noticed a few years a.go in New Jersey but it 

 faiknl to heed the quarantine regulations of our celebrated 

 b\-deral I lorticultural Board and has steadily spread westward. 

 It has progressed as far as Ohio atid it is now proposed to 

 establish a new (juaranline bv pnihibiling or restricting the 

 movement of the plants mentioned aixne, across a line from 

 Lake Michigan to the Ohio V^alley. This may help some, 

 but it ought to be clear to everybody by this time that a 

 quarantine often does not quarantine. One lively entomolo- 

 gist in the field devising methods for controlling the pests 

 is worth several reams of restrictions put out from W'ash- 

 ingti^n 1)\- the Government scientists. 



