Impressive Facts 



ACCORDING to United States Department of Agri- 

 ii culture statistics, the annual loss to the cotton 

 crop of the United States through insects comes 

 close to $60,000,000. Grasshoppers and other pests 

 destroy yearly $53,000,000 worth of 

 hay and Si 20,000,000 worth of cereal 

 grains. The damage to growing fruits and 

 vegetables runs into hundreds of millions of 

 dollars annually. 



Whenever a vegetable raiser or fruit 

 grower starts to compute the costs of his 

 crops, he counts on 25 per cent, of his 

 produces being eaten or impaired by the insects that 

 forage on his property. All this frightful loss takes 

 place in spite of the millions of dollars people spend 

 yearly for insecticides with which they frantically 

 trv to get rid of these enemies. Think of feeding 

 nearly 53,000,000 worth of good food every day to 

 mere insects — which is what the government fig- 

 ures mean — when Polish people are perishing of 

 hunger and Armenian babies have all but died oft 

 for lack of food! Think of shooting or wounding 

 a bird which at the very moment of its death may 

 have its little inside crammed with bugs and larvae 

 and noxious insects that were preparing to advance 

 upon our garden beds ! 



"The chickadee," so the government tells us, "is 



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