INSECT PESTS OP FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



though a small crop may bring better prices, it is usually at the 

 expense of individuals or communities which have sustained ex- 

 ceptionally heavy losses. Were these losses evenly distributed 

 among all those producing a given crop, there would be no real 

 hardship to them; but such is by no means the case. 



All this, then, goes to emphasize the fact that the successful 

 farmer as the successful man in any other trade or profession 

 is the one who is able to overcome obstacles which, though pos- 

 sibly ruining his neighbor, are making a good market for his special 

 crop; for these insect pests can be largely overcome. The millen- 

 nium will doubtless come before the farmer will be able to stop 

 fighting them, but a large part of the damage by them can be pre- 

 vented at a cost which renders it profitable. Rational methods of 

 general farm practice with the proper use of apparatus and insecti- 

 cides, even such as are now known, and in which improvements 

 are being constantly made, if intelligently used by American 

 farmers, would save to them the larger part of this enormous loss. 



