. Australian Garden and Field. 468 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. Naich, 1914 supply, insects chanore their primi- tive habits to swarm and multiply exceedinjily upon the fertile fields and {jreen pastures of man's crea- tion. In addition to this, as the pioneer introduces i)lants and seeds from the land he has left, he im- wittinoflv introduces \yith them in- sects, too, to swell the hordes of native depredators. WTien we re- flect on the number of insect pests to which man's farminjj operations must always <jive rise, we must admit that he can ill allord to lose the services of the bird in the war
. Australian Garden and Field. 468 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. Naich, 1914 supply, insects chanore their primi- tive habits to swarm and multiply exceedinjily upon the fertile fields and {jreen pastures of man's crea- tion. In addition to this, as the pioneer introduces i)lants and seeds from the land he has left, he im- wittinoflv introduces \yith them in- sects, too, to swell the hordes of native depredators. WTien we re- flect on the number of insect pests to which man's farminjj operations must always <jive rise, we must admit that he can ill allord to lose the services of the bird in the war which he must wag^e (Continually an^ainst orjranic Nature in order to maintain his artificial standards against her inexorable laws. â â Recoj^ition of an Kconomic Fact. â Tn iqog, replvine to the London Chamber of Commerce (which soii<rht on behalf of its Plumao-e Section to obtain a repeal of the law which prohibits the export of plumarnn- m-ents. Tn last A^rvar's Peiort '~«n - TCitrhenT th^t fVie. indiscriminate destriiction r,f '^>ird life had allowed an eT^rmous inrreaso of in^nrt nests, for the fombatinc of which stens were to be taken. T,ord Kitchener knew that in spite of the improved me- thods of fipfhtincf insects there was only one step that he could take that wouM be effective. A Khcdival Decree was issued forbiddin<