Some lour jears ago the i'iue Bark beetle com 

 mitted depredatious in the piue forests of Southwest-, 

 ern Peuusylvania aud in West Virginia amounting to 

 fully |1,()(K),()00, aud last year, according to the esti- 

 mates of our correspondents, the army worm damaged 

 crops, chielly cereals, to the extent of at least $300,000. 

 In 1895, "rose bugs" and English sparrows caused, 

 according to the testimony of our Erie county cor 

 respondents, fully $50,000 loss to vineyards in the 

 famous Erie grape bolt. 



THK LOSS IN OTHER STATKS. 



In Morth Carolina, the insect hosts annually, it is 

 said, destroy over one and one-half million dollars 

 worth of agricultural products. In 1893, the loss from 

 granary insects to the corn crop alone in the State of 

 -ti.iaoama was claimed to be $1,671,882, aud in the Lone 

 Star State grain weevils, according to a well known 

 writer, cause an annual loss in stored cereals of over 

 $1,000,000. In 1874, the Western States were visited 

 by grasshoppers which played such havoc with the 

 crops that their depredations amounted to $45,000,000. 

 The chinch bugs were so numerous in Illinois in 18(i4 

 that they cost the people of that State over $73,000,000, 

 and in Missouri in 1874 the same voracious pests de- 

 voured agricultural products to the amount of $19,- 

 000,000. In the cotton raising States the annual loss 

 through the cotton worm from 1864 to 1880 was esti- 

 mated at about $15,000,000. 



Dr. Packard states that; "Each species of plant on an aver- 

 age supports three to four species of Insects, and numerous 

 plants, particularly those in general cultivation, afford sub- 

 sistence to many more. Many species, which now attacl< gar- 

 den vegetables or fruit or vines, once lived in the forest on en- 

 tirely different vegetable life." 



