Farmer's Foes and Their Remedies (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Farmer's Foes and Their RemediesWhen we re¿ect on the four hundred millions of dollars a year lost to our pockets* by insect ravages, we may incline to believe that the only kind of insect study which should claim our attention is the study of how to rid our lands of these pests. We may be excused for affirming of bugs, as was said of Indians by some epigrammatist, that the only good ones are the dead ones. When. However, we learn, as we are learning in these present days, that insects are not simply serious enemies of our crops and purses, but are truly dangerous to our very health and life. We must become still more extravagant in our condemnatory expressions concerning them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.