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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 14, 11 October 1917, Page 6

Mr. H. C. Hoover, who administered the Belgian Belief I'und, and is now the American Food .Administrator, declares that food profiteers in the United States are making .£10,000,0(10 u month in illicit profits. The price of (lour, according to Jlr. Hoover, should bo about .'l7s. a barrel. The present price is about s(is. lie declares that uulise food is safeguarded victory fov the Kaiser is assured. An illustration of how easily a dangerous vegetable pest may be introduced into a country was furnished by a discovery made some weeks ago by the "Federal quarantine officer at Brisbane. When a Customs officer was going through the parcels from the American mails ho noticed a paper containing butterflies, sent as an advertisement, ivith burrs fastened to them. The quarantine officer found the burr was a noxious plant known as burdock, the importation of which is prohibited. It is a particularly bad weed. Tim burrs wore all full ot seeds capable of germinating. 'Jlin chief qimniuLinc officer in Melbourne has bran notified and Hie burrs have 'been destroyed.