The cause of Forestry will not die in Minnesota. There will 

 be a temporary set back it the full appropriation of $75,000 is 

 not allowed. But, it does not mean that things will all go to 

 smash. Another session is coming. The people will awaken 

 to the needs. And when the people realize them, their repre- 

 sentatives, the legislators, will realize them. Friends of For- 

 estry in Minnesota should bind themselves together for work 

 during the next two years. The Forestry association has a 

 most important task placed before it. And to that end, the 

 friends are urged to get together and pull hard for the things 

 needed. In pulling hard for these things, let us keep from heap- 

 ing severe criticism, often unwarranted criticism, upon the 

 heads of those legislators who have not thought as we have 

 during the past winter. Men differ on public questions. Let 

 us give every man credit for differing with us. 



The thing to do is to go out and show the opponents of for- 

 estry that they are wrong. The Forestry association can 

 have a big part in doing this very thing. 



ECONOMIC VALUE OF BIRDS. 



Persons who have as yet found no really satisfying reason 

 for the steadily increasing cost of foodstuffs will do well to 

 ponder upon Uncle Sam's statement that a ten per cent loss 

 occasioned by depredating insects on all cereals raised in the 

 U. S. is a very conservative estimate. 



The loss on corn, our leading cereal crop, from the corn- 

 root worm is estimated at $20,000,000. The tax levied on this 

 valuable food by the boll or ear worm is more than $20,000,000. 

 The chinch-bug brings its bill of damage up to the same 

 figures, while the billbugs, wireworms, cutworms, army-worms, 

 stalk-borers, grasshoppers and corn-plant lice make a grand 

 total of $80,000,000 yearly loss to corn from insects. 



Our next food staple, wheat, suffers most of all our grains 

 from destructive insects, the Hessian fly leading with a nice 

 little bill of $20,000,000 a year. Plant-lice cause an annual loss 

 of from two to three per cent of this crop, while wheat-midge, 

 saw-flies, cutworms and army-worms bring the total yearly 

 damage to wheat from insects up to $100,000,000. 



The codling-moth causes twenty to thirty per cent loss each 

 year to our favorite fruit, the apple. Combining with this the 



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