USES OF BEAUTY 



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The following is a common 



workers, are in large measure responsible for soil fertility, 

 and so for our very lives. 



Other allies of man long remained unrecognized, not 

 because they were small, but because no competent scien- 

 tist had taken the trouble to investigate them. Certain 

 insects belong to this class. To it belong also plants and 

 animals of diverse groups, 

 example of this. Fastened 

 to the window panes of the 

 house or stable, during the 

 fall, many dead flies may 

 often be noticed. Growing 

 out of each fly there is prob- 

 ably a fluffy growth, the 

 work of a beneficial fungus. 

 For many years people did 

 not know why flies died in 

 this manner. They did not 

 recognize the agent that 

 kills the flies. 



Other pests are often 

 destroyed in some such 

 manner, though no one can 

 yet name the particular 

 agent that wrought the 

 blessing. No doubt, many forms of life now thought 

 useless will be proved to be helpful to man. There are 

 few fields of human life where the highest scientific knowl- 

 edge can play a more useful part than in agriculture. 

 The best education is not thrown away upon the farmer. 



9. Uses of Beauty. Moreover, it is narrow for the 

 farmer to look upon nature only from the viewpoint of 

 his purse. "Man shall not live by bread alone." We 

 ought to feel that we are made " brothers to the insensible 



THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 



This pest has destroyed thousands 



of orchards. 



