20 Agriculture and Its Needs 



our farm products amounts to $24,000,000. 

 Eastern Massachusetts has lately had to 

 fight the gypsy moth, a great destroyer of 

 shade trees. It is said that in 1907 that 

 state, in co-operation with the municipal- 

 ities affected, expended $750,000 to fight 

 this pest. Now it is added that these little 

 scoundrels are migrating to the westward 

 on parallel lines of latitude, and that the 

 first division has even got as far as Spring- 

 field, and is advancing upon us with grim 

 and sullen determination. If they get up 

 to the New York line, we will be likely to 

 fight them with resources and energy enough 

 to make them pale, because we shall be in 

 comparison with Massachusetts and there 

 will be some flavor of patriotism and rivalry 

 about it. But fruit trees are as vital as 

 forest trees ! Hens are as much entitled to 

 our respectful consideration as partridges! 

 Jersey cows^have as many claims upon us as 



