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hosts feed unmolested upon your choicest products, for it is ever 

 those that they prefer, and there is failure. Fight them energeti- 

 cally, scientifically, and manfully, and there is success, and a 

 brighter future for you and your children. Do not, I beg of you, 

 tolerate for a day longer, that inexcusable, shameful, costly neglect 

 of the study of insect lives and insect habits. 



