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All-America Pest Team Named by Agriculture Service
Dr. F C Bishopp of the U S Department of Agriculture listed the top ten destructive pests harming U S crops in 1949 with grasshopper leading the lineup and others including the cotton boll weevil corn ear worm European corn borer cattle grub Mexican bean beetle bark beetles horn fly poultry lice and lygus bugs Bishopp noted rival pests on honorable mention and said the department spends about 12 million dollars yearly to combat these and related threats with nearly a million for quarantine measures against foreign pests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Grasshopper
F. C.bishopp
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology and
National’ Cotton Council
Notre Dame
Philadelphia Eagles
Bishopp
Wyoming
Montana
Cotton Belt
Texas
New England
Department of Agriculture