PART V. 



ENEMIES OF THE SUGAR BEET. 



The sugar beet, like all other plants, has its enemies, 

 which, by their ravages, cause great destruction and 

 loss both to the manufacturer and farmer. These may 

 be divided into two categories : — 



Insects and Diseases. 



To give a complete list of all the insects that have 

 up to the present day attacked the beet (causing a loss 

 which is estimated in France at $400,000 yearly), 

 would be impossible, fi-om the fact that there are many 

 in existence^ that have not thus far been brought be- 

 fore the public ; and then, again, it does not imply that 

 because a certain insect or its larva should have a 

 preference for this saccharine plant in Europe, that 

 the same case should present itself in the ]!!^orthern 

 States. But at the same time it is probable that the 

 most important of these will conduct themselves in a 

 manner somewhat similar at all portions of the globe 

 in which they may happen to be. Their entomological 



' Mr. Brame, a French savant, in his treatise on Agriculture, says : " There 

 are but few insects that attack the beet." This is a creat error. 



