612 i REVIEWS. 
ought to have been about thirty millions of bushels, and the corn crop 
about one hundred and thirty-eight num bushels. Putting the cash 
value of wheat at $1.25 and that of corn 50 cents, the cash value of 
the corn and wheat destroyed by this ser nidi little bug, no bigger 
than a grain of rice, in one single State and one single year, will there- 
fore, according to the above figures, foot up to the astounding total of 
OVER SEVENTY-THREE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!” "The cabbage butterfly 
(Pieris rape), recently introduced (p. 28) from Europe, is estimated by 
M. Provancher, to annually destroy two hundred and forty thousand dol- 
lars’ worth of cabbages around Quebec. The Hessian fly, according to 
Vine Dresser and Pupa. 
Dr. Fitch, destroyed Sh million dollars worth of wheat in New York 
State in one year. The worm of the North (Leucania m 
which was so abunda: Pas in 1861 from New England to s, was 
reported to have d that year ín Eastern Mp etts 
nly 
checking its attacks, resulting from a "dede Mind of its snm m 
deliver a wasted fields from its direful a 
Indeed the cry of waste, waste, arises city over the land. The money 
and material that is wasted annually in-bad roads, in the loss of fertilizers 
from wanton waste, the loss from ignorance of geology and mining engi- 
neering, the waste involved in the process of extracting ores. the waste 
from bad cooking, poor housewifery, and above all, the loss of human life 
