CHAPTER II 

 FARM PESTS 



Ailments of farm, stock — Ailmients due to insects — Ox Warble 

 Fly — Horse Bot Fly and Gad Flies — Sheep parasites — Nos- 

 tril Fly — Blue-bottles and Green-bottles — Keds or false 

 Ticks — Sheep Scab and Tick Mite — Liverfluke — Pigs and 

 Tapeworms — Poultry parasites, external and internal — Bee 

 pests — Insects injurious to field crops — Clover Weevil — 

 Eelworms — Antler Moth — Frit Fly — Ribbon-footed Corn 

 Fly — Hessian Fly and Wheat Midge— The Mole Cricket — 

 Corn Thrips— Corn Aphis — Grain Moth and Corn Weevil — 

 Ear-cockles — The rat question — Mustard Beetles — Root 

 crops and the Turnip Moth. 



WE now take up the story in earnest, and as we are 

 dealing with insects as a whole it will be necessary 

 to pay some particular attention to those species which 

 are injurious to farm stock. In pre-war days many 

 English farmers used to look upon their stock as their 

 mainstay, and farm animals must of course always take 

 the first place in the eyes of the agriculturist, as without 

 them it would be quite impossible to carry on. There 

 is nothing truer than the saying that a farmer is never 

 done learning, and this remark applies to stock more 

 than anything else. Their ailments are many, and it 

 hurts a good farmer to see his beasts suffer and not know 

 the cause or the remedy. Of course he always sends 

 for the vet., which is much the safest plan, but a httle 

 handy acquaintance with the causes of some of these 



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