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PLANT BOARD URGES CAUTION IN BUYING PLANT S. A. and M. College, Miss. April 24, Showing how easily plant pests are spread from place and how new pests are introuced, the State Plant Board reports that among it recent interceptions was a shipment of potted plants from New Orleans con signed to a Mississippi town, which , on examination by Trispector Bynun: at Gulfort, revealed the presence of a large colony of Argentine Ants with several queens and a multi tude of workers. Through just such shipment as this, the Plant Board states that the Argentine Ant has spread from town to town until it is now found in nearly 70 towns in Mississippi, causing untold trouble to thousands of housewives over the State, be sides destroying large numbers plats and trees by its habit of spreading sesle insects and plant lice. As people often buy potted plants in towns and carry them to the country, the Plant Board urges that great care should be used in getting such plant especially in towns where the Argentine Ant is known to be pre sent. It may also be carried in wood, old lumber, and other things The Board also states that a number of other serious pests can be transferred in plant shipments even more easily than the Argen tine Ant, since a queen is neces sary to start a new ant colony while of some other pests a single individual is enough to start ar infestation. This emphasizes the fact that people should buy plants only from certified florists and greenhouses, and even then tare t heir plants before, mt a git, spree Nursery OSS EMSs Me Siena. . fanu Tstowt= and Breen, dues ts anyone fer deting it, Clay Lyle, General Inspector,
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Water Valley Progress Itemizer
Water Valley, Mississippi, US
Thu, May 03, 1923
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