FARM SPIES 



Sit him as if he was angry enough to bite him. Then 

 he scolded Mr. Corn, saying: "It seems to me you 

 are taking a great risk talking to me the way you 

 do, but a big and powerful king like me would call 



your talk only 

 childish prattle. 

 Do you not know 

 that my tern- 

 tory extends from 

 ocean to ocean 

 and from the 

 Gulf of Mexico 

 northward half- 

 way across the 

 United States ? 

 I and my. coun- 

 try are known 

 the world over. 

 Every year I 

 furnish food for 

 millions, build 

 railroads, high- 

 ways, and water- 

 ways. During 

 my reign not an enemy appeared in the cotton- 

 fields that did not soon become very sorry for 

 having come, because we whipped every one of them. 

 When the cotton-leaf worm came he thought that 



(From Bur. ofEnt., U. S. Dept. ofAgr.) 



FIG. 2. "He thought that he was the biggest 

 bug on earth." 



