The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-05-17
Bugs of 100000 900 Different
Varieties Are the Bane of the
Farmer, Causing Tremendous
Damage to Crops-War on
Pests Meeting With Fair De-
gree of Success.
BY GEORGE N. HARRISON.

dudg Is uOue yearly III thc
United States by insects. They
attack everything. Each diff
ferent kind of growth has an insect
all its own, while in some instances a
half dozen or ven a dozen separate
species attack n plant.
The farmers have always been trou-
bled with the insect scourge, which
has destroyed and continues to de-
mand its great share of the nations
crops. Methods to prevent the serious
devastation of the country's food out
put have been tried with more or less
success, but the ever hungry insect
continues on its course of destruction,
exacting its heavy levy, while the tiller
of the soil has been almost compelled
to throw up his hands in defeat.
Many of the unsatisfactory condi-
tons Of life can be traced to the insect
pests. The high cost Of living, for in
stance, might easily be lowered II we
were not called upon to feed and main
tain in luxury billions upon billions OF
insects that are constantly demanding
the best, eating the very heart out or
the nations food supply. And the
exodus from the farm to the city-is
that, too, not a condition for which
the insect is partly responsible? Fol
unquestionably the burden of the farm
er is multiplied threefold by the raw
aging assaults of his never firing en-
envy.
100000 KINDS
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1t is the insect which is the uniyer-
sal destroyer, it is the insect that
may cause a food by boring holes
through and weakening a levee, 1t Is
the insect that eats into your clothes
and spoils your carpets, and it Is the
insect which may make your day I'M
comfortable and your night miserable.
Yes, it's the insect which does this
and much more. and by insect Is
meant ten million different breeds,
brands, kinds, species or whatever 9TH
er way you wish to classify them. But
Of all other things attracting their fas-
tidious tastes the food liked most by
the human family is the center of
their attacks.
The hordes of creepy, Gravity. ugly
vet beautiful creations of nature which
have never proved themselves to be
anything more than destroyers are
constantly under close observation by
the United States department of agri-
culture. and through the microscopic
study of ~entomologists much has been
discovered about the habits OF hun
dreds of different kinds of insects,
which has led to the adoption of intel
ligent means Of determination.
For one thing. 1t has been found that
nature has in her own way placed in
the hand OF man means OF protection
against the pests. In some parts or
the world there usually is to be uncoy-
cred some species which will feed on
the one causing the trouble. Today
men are searching through dense for
ests, up mountain heights and In arctic
regions for parasites which may prove
to be worth millions of dollars yearly
TO the American farmer by killing OF
the blights on their crops.
THE BOIL WEEvIL PEST
When the boil weevil appeared and
began its costly ravages upon the cot
ton crop of the south. scientists were
etailed to trace ii back TO its original
,me to discover there what provision
ure had made against its increase.
Y followed the path of its migra-
Scross the Rio Grande into Next
south to Guatemala. They dis
that. although boil weeyils
Id there. the natives were able :