June, 1921] DIGGING UP FACTS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMS 23 



A BILL 



To THE State of New Hampshire 



Potato diseases and pests $600,000 



Apple Maggot and codling moth 200,000 



Pests and diseases of hay, grain and forage crops 800,000 



Abortion and tuberculosis of cattle 700,000 



Hog cholera 50,000 



White diarrhea of poultry 250,000 



Gypsy moth and other forest pests 600,000 



Other diseases and pests 300,000 



Total .13,500,000 



These charges are collected on the spot. 



Annual tribute on New Hampshire crops by plant and animal diseases and 



insect pests. 



One of the tax collectors. 



agricultural crops of the state; and because of this lack of knowl- 

 edge, the control in successive seasons was extremely variable, 

 sometimes good, sometimes bad. Since that time a steadily in- 

 creasing fund of information has been gathering in regard to the 

 losses from these causes and the methods of control. Special 

 researches on the diseases most dif&cult to control have brought 

 results. 



For example, the Brooks spot of apple, a disease that had long 

 caused considerable injury to fruit throughout New England and 

 particularly in New Hampshire, was traced to a fungus not pre- 

 viously known to have infected apples. Methods of preventing 

 the development of the fungus were devised, and today in well- 

 cared-for orchards losses due to it are no longer of material im- 

 portance. 



