CHAPTER VIII 



INSECT ATTACKS AND THEIR REMEDIES 



AMONGST the various branches of natural 

 science of which the intelligent woodman 

 should acquire some practical knowledge, 

 there is, perhaps, none to which so few direct 

 their attention as the study of entomology. 

 As showing the importance of insect life in 

 connection with our forest trees, it may be 

 stated that in the case of the oak alone it is 

 reckoned that, in addition to the cockchafer, 

 goat moth, oak-leaf roller moth, and other 

 insect foes, no less than forty kinds of galls 

 attack the tree. 



Several species of trees suffer greatly from 

 attacks of insects, whether at the root, stem, 

 or leaf, and at almost every period of their 

 existence. In a book of this kind it is quite 



out of the question to enumerate the many 



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