4 LOSS TO AGRICULTURE 



products, such as mill stuffs, fruit, cotton, woollens, etc., suffered 

 each year in the United States. 



Squirrels, gophers, and prairie dogs destroy every year some- 

 thing like $10,000,000 worth of agricultural products. In the 

 winter of 1901-1902 nurserymen near Rochester, New York, sus- 

 tained a loss of $100,000 through the work of field mice. In 

 the case of prairie dogs, conservative estimates place the annual 

 loss in Nebraska, due to this rodent, at $80,000, and ground 

 squirrels in one ranch in Nevada, in one season, caused a loss to 

 the grain crop of $10,000. 



QUESTIONS 



1. What losses have been sustained by farmers in your neighborhood, caused 



by grain insects? 



2. What injury have you seen done to trees by insects? 



3. Are there any valuable forest areas in your state? 



4. Have they been injured by insect pests? 



5. What is your state doing to protect its forest areas? 



6. What orchard insects are troublesome in your vicinity arid what is being 



done to combat them? 



