FOREST INSECTS. 



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quantities, often living for months on little else, and 

 sheep are destructive in the same way. Hogs also find 



a living 



in the forest, but they are less harmful, 



because a large part of their food consists of seeds and 

 nuts. East of the Great Plains very large numbers of 

 cattle and hogs are turned into the woods, but sheei^ 

 grazing in the forest is most widely developed in the 

 West, and especially in California, where it should be 



Fig. 67. — Larch trees killed by the larva of a small eawfly. The land has just 

 been lumbered for Spruce. Adirondack Mountains, ^ew York. 



prevented altogether, in (3regon and Washington, where 

 it should be regulated and restricted, and in some 

 interior regions, like Wyoming and Kew iVIexico, where 

 it should be rigidly excluded from all steep mountain 

 regions, and carefully regulated on more level ground. 



FOREST INSECTS. 



Insects are constantly injuring the forest, just as year 

 by year they bring loss to the farm. Occasionally their 



