71.   Agriculture officials today use malathion to kill the Mediterranean fruit fly.

72.   All shipments would be subject to inspection by U.S. agriculture officials and require thorough documentation on their origin.

73.   Agriculture department officials have maintained that workers can legally enter yards and cut down trees suspected of carrying canker.

74.   Agriculture officials confirmed six new cases Thursday, including the first in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

75.   Agriculture officials have tried to stem its path, importing thousands of carnivorous ladybugs from Britain.

76.   Agriculture officials said a drought that hit the country early this year reduced production.

77.   Agriculture officials said a farm at Heddon-on-the-Wall in northern England had supplied pigs to the slaughterhouse in Essex county where the scare began.

78.   An agriculture ministry official declined comment.

79.   American agriculture officials interviewed by the newspaper seemed nonchalant about the news.

80.   And state agriculture officials are haggling with equestrian officials over who will pay to quarantine foreign competition horses that carry a tick-borne disease called piroplasmosis.