NEED OF INSECTICIDES. 



Says Prof. S. T. Maynjird, in Bulletin No. 11 of the 

 Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, January, 1891 : " Another season has demonstrated 

 how dependent we are for profitable crops upon the absence 

 of fungous diseases and injurious insects, and the necessity 

 of safe and easily applied remedies. The apple crop though 

 small would have been a very valuable one in Massachusetts 

 but for the ravages of the codling moth and the apple scab, 

 which have rendered thousands of barrels worthless. The 

 pear crop has been seriously injured b}^ the codling moth 

 and pear or apple scab. The plum crop was almost a total 

 failure on account of the ravages of the plum curculio and 

 the black wart. The grape crop, although on the whole one 

 of the best ever harvested in New England, was in many 

 sections seriously injured by the grape rot which injured the 

 fruit, and the mildew which destroyed the foliage or so 

 injured it as to retard ripening. It is the belief of many 

 practical fruit growers and market gardeners that from one- 

 third to one-half of the entire products of the orchards and 

 gardens of the State are destroyed by insects and fungous 

 diseases." 



Says Dr. J. C. Neal, in Bulletin No. 9 of the Experiment 

 Station of Florida, April, 1890: "It is very common to 

 ridicule the efforts of })ractical entomologists, and belittle 

 the results obtained by their methods of preventing or miti- 

 gating the ravages of insects, but the fact remains that at no 

 distant date no farming will be a success without considera- 

 ble knowledge of the habits of insect foes and the means 

 devised to oppose them. 



"Already in many sections the agriculturist realizes that 

 he may fertilize his soil, plant the best of seed ; it may rain, 



