The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18

tain crops. These losses, when ex-
pressed in dollars and cents, are more
or less misleading, because, for exam
pie, in a year when the chinch bugs
wipes out corn crop or wheat crop
in restricted portions of the country,
the price of wheat or corn is sure to
go up, which restores the money value
of the crop as a whole. Nevertheless,
this increased prices bears upon the
entire country and there is thus dis
tinct and enormous economic loss
through the work of the insects. Ac-
cording to the calculations of conserva-
tive Investigators the amount of de-
struction caused by the jaws of the
various species of insects, most of
which are so small that the average
man would hardly note their existence,
is more than $300,000,000 a year. In
other terms, if, for three years, the
destructive insects would institute
fast, the amount saved in grain, fruit,
cereals, timber, sundry crops and do
nestle animals would pay the national
debt.
A few years ago one farmer In the
South lost $4,000 in single season
through the damage done to his extern
sive strawberry crop by the furnished
plant bug. In 1880 one farmer in Illinois
lost $4,000 through the ravages OF the
army worm. In Maryland in the past
two or three years an orchard grower
has lost peach orchard valued at $25,-
900 through the destructiveness of the
San Jose scale. The destructive insect
known as the ox-bot, or ox-warble,
damages cattle around Lexington, KY,
to an amount estimated at $l2,-
900 annually. In 1895 the osier will
low industry in a restricted por-
tian of the state of New York,
suffered a loss estimated at $4,000
from damage done by the cottonwood
leaf beetle. The Erie grape belt in
Pennsylvania in 1895 suffered loss
amounting to $4,000 from the ravages
Of the rose chafer. In 1885 the Hessian
ny caused to two counties in the state
Of New York a loss amounting to $780,
200. In 1886 the cranberry crop in three
towns on Cape Cod suffered a loss of
100000 from the work of the army
worm. In 1885 and 1885 cut worms
caused an amount of damage to the
onion crop in Orange county, N. Y,
estimated at $4,000 each year. In 1874
the buffalo gnat killed stock in one
county in Tennessee valued at 100000.
The loss to truck farmers in Mary
land from the work of the melon plant
louise is estimated at 100000 annually.
IN 1885 Massachusetts suffered loss
10 the grass and grain crop from the
army worm amounting to 100000. Sim
iar damage was done in Pennsylvania
py the same insect in the same year
10 the amount of $500, 900. In 1898 the
loss to the pine forests in West Vir-
slhla and small portion of South
western Pennsylvania from bark bee
Ties amounted to s1,000,0OO In 1898 the
loss suffered by the state of Alabama
IN stored grain from the ravages of
Ll6 lnEtpnifironf fxy mo q
closely estimated at $1,671,s22. The an
nual loss in Texas from this same
insect amounts to over 100000 In 1890
Iue mop industry in the states of Wash
inston and Oregon is said to have suf-
lered loss of $685., 900 from the work
VI the hop plant louise. Now that the
STATE of Massachusetts, has discontin-
ueo It's exterminative work against the
esypsy moth, the committee which had
une work in charge estimates an an
nual loss to that state of 81, 900 900, af-
J g, rev years increase. The state of
tulnols until quite recently suffered an
annual loss of $2,375, 900, or one-half the
tnalue OF the average apple crop
~ Iough the work of the codling moth.
oM Ne in 1892 suffered a loss of ST.
oVVVu IN the same way. New York is
ga SAD to suffer an annual loss of $3,-
VVo Wv from the same insect, of which
S1'oOV'OoO is In apples and 100000 in
pears AS far back as 1854 the wheat
SSrop OF the state of New York was
uahlaged to the extent of SIS, 900 900 by
Ihe wheat nudge. Ohio in the same
year lost $15,000,0O0 from the same
eduse' and Canada in 1857 from the
same insect lost $4,000 900. In 1899 the
66leen pea louise in Maryland ate $3,-
'V''VOV worth of green pease being rails