. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Massachusetts Periodicals; Fertilizers -- Analysis Periodicals. 16 Lisecta. We now come to the most interesting phase of the whole qnestion of the economic vahie of the toad, a consideration of the insect food. Insects constitute ,sevent3'-seven per cent of the total food for the season and the natural orders represented contribute the fol- lowing percentages : Orthoptera, three per cent; Hymen- optera, nineteen per cent; Coleoptera, twenty-seven J^uisa ^tri'sthi'. per Cent; Lepidoptera, twenty-eight ])er cent. A few Hemiptera and Diptera were found, but these taken

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. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Massachusetts Periodicals; Fertilizers -- Analysis Periodicals. 16 Lisecta. We now come to the most interesting phase of the whole qnestion of the economic vahie of the toad, a consideration of the insect food. Insects constitute ,sevent3'-seven per cent of the total food for the season and the natural orders represented contribute the fol- lowing percentages : Orthoptera, three per cent; Hymen- optera, nineteen per cent; Coleoptera, twenty-seven J^uisa ^tri'sthi'. per Cent; Lepidoptera, twenty-eight ])er cent. A few Hemiptera and Diptera were found, but these taken together do not form one per cent of the whole 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 Hatch Experiment Station. [S. l. : s. n. ]

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