. A conspicuous national service. Birds -- Conservation. Impressive Facts ACCORDING to United States Department of Agri- ii culture statistics, the annual loss to the cotton crop of the United States through insects comes close to $60,000,000. Grasshoppers and other pests destroy yearly $53,000,000 worth of hay and Si 20,000,000 worth of cereal grains. The damage to growing fruits and vegetables runs into hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Whenever a vegetable raiser or fruit grower starts to compute the costs of his crops, he counts on 25 per cent, of his produces being eaten or impair
. A conspicuous national service. Birds -- Conservation. Impressive Facts ACCORDING to United States Department of Agri- ii culture statistics, the annual loss to the cotton crop of the United States through insects comes close to $60,000,000. Grasshoppers and other pests destroy yearly $53,000,000 worth of hay and Si 20,000,000 worth of cereal grains. The damage to growing fruits and vegetables runs into hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Whenever a vegetable raiser or fruit grower starts to compute the costs of his crops, he counts on 25 per cent, of his produces being eaten or impaired by the insects that forage on his property. All this frightful loss takes place in spite of the millions of dollars people spend yearly for insecticides with which they frantically trv to get rid of these enemies. Think of feeding nearly 53,000,000 worth of good food every day to mere insects — which is what the government fig- ures mean — when Polish people are perishing of hunger and Armenian babies have all but died oft for lack of food! Think of shooting or wounding a bird which at the very moment of its death may have its little inside crammed with bugs and larvae and noxious insects that were preparing to advance upon our garden beds! "The chickadee," so the government tells us, "is 10. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931, printer. New York : People's Home Journal
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