Stray crop duster chemicals a problem

To the Editor:

I am wondering what right these crop dusters have to spray people's yards and also, the people themselves if they are in their own yard. I have talked to different ones from last year that have had their gardens, fruit trees, and decorative plants ruined from them. Apparently they are spraying Round-up or some other type of chemical. I know personally of one family that had their complete garden ruined because of them and they had over $500 in that garden.

Should we all get together and make them accountable for the damage they do? Are there others out there that are as disgusted as I am and have lost a garden? I just left where they were spraying and you could smell it in the air. The government is always complaining about polluting the air from car exhaust and everything else. What about what they are doing to the air we breathe? I am sure it isn't acceptable health-wise to breath these chemicals. Come on people! What can be done?

Shirley Harris

Poplar Bluff, Mo.