INSECT PESTS AND HOW TO 

 BEAT THEM 



CHAPTER I 

 THE SMALLHOLDER AND INSECT PESTS 



THE subject of insect pests from the smallholder's 

 standpoint has become of such importance to-day 

 that the present volume has been written with the object 

 of endeavouring to assist growers to cope with a danger 

 that must inevitably become serious unless handled on 

 intelligent lines. 



It has become a commonplace to say that when war 

 came upon us the British nation arose most wonderfully 

 to the great call of the times, and that there is no man 

 worthy of the name who ought not to feel proud of 

 citizenship in this Empire. This was evinced in no 

 direction more markedly than with the great group of 

 new growers and allotment workers who, in spite of 

 initial inexperience, and in spite of the slow-coach policy 

 of various Councils and Authorities, have hterally worked 

 wonders with the soil. 



Now comes an important aspect of the situation. We 

 have got on to the land, a large number of us, and we 

 are not going to be turned off again with a mere vote 

 of thanks or a paragraph in the daily paper. Things 

 will go hard in certain places if we do not estabUsh our 

 claim as growers, important items in our small way in 



