Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-08

eT1IE foremost scientists OF the world have baen
agreed for the last decade that the crucial strug
gle OF humanity will not be that of nations war.
ring for territory which each envies other but will
be colossal battle to keep from being driven off the
earth Itself! And in this battle 1t Will be mankind
against bugs!
BY its fecundity its enormous comparative strength
sometimes equivalent Of what would be- IL the bug
we're as large a horse. thousand horse power
and In It's ineItinguishabe passionate and concen-
trated will to live and its enormous adaptabv the
Insect kingdom makes the human race appear incred
IDLY inefficient
Civilization has for the last twenty years and more
been steadily overturning the balance OF nature which
has kept the Insect kingdom down and this scientists
throughout the world have recognized Within haf
that time what a world wide organization
has been formed to find and test ways 20 cone with
the fastgrowing swarms which menace humanity II
Is recognized that only by tireless long and costiv
ana dangerous struggle Will man be able retain his
dominance and freedom TO develop his world
Inc latest warning OF this peril to humanity has
been sounded In most rkable fashion bv pro.
lessor C. Ealsnd OF the foremost entomoloyists
OF the world and the late principal of the Anglican
Soege OF Agriculture OF England. Professor EaIand
begins his remarkable work. which he calls insects
and Man. and which is published by the Century Com
pany. In New York. with the following statement:
at 10 fortunate for that the insect world 10 n
mouse divided aaainet Itself Except for thin check The
human would be extinct In five or slx years" NV
The fecundity OF many insects is enormous uur
icy estimated that, mshaps apart, single green fly
oua M Ten generations produce mass Of organic
mater equivalent to five hundred million human
beings. or as many the whole population of The
Chinese Empire! - ~
From the earliest times man han suffered from in.
5ect Damage to his crops, his live stock and himself
Locust plaques rvatng those Of Egypt have come to
man from time to time. Pliny mentions them: they
VISITED Ukraine In 1915. and America at the close or
.ne otv war; vast swarm two thouaand miles in
extent crossed the Red Sea in 1889 and eight years
previously one thousand three hundred OF locust
eggs were destroyed in Cyprus alone
hut ms Is not all The United States suffers dam.
age annually to the extent OF 10000 600 owing 10 Tho
oepredations OF the Hessian fly; the cotton boil weey
causes an annual loss OF $4,000 0O0O the cooling moth
@tooooooo, and the chinch bug 100000 Add to this
me eamage done by gypsy and brown.tail mohs and
ne aah Jose scale to say nothing of hos; Of minor
pests ana the total assumes alarming proportions
., turning TO Great Britain approximate yalua.
uon OF ts I'VE stock alone amouns to 81 25G 600 oO0
~he the area under All descrip,ons 60 nrob
aoy 9Loooooo acres Every insect that Is injurious
~ etoSk or crops Is Iactor-and serious one-on
INC cent side OF the one industry that never dies
me damage occasioned by what may he termed ngri
Sui.uIai insects is often not fully realized nv tho
MANN himself; but douby true to-day is the state
tneut made more than fifty years ago by John Cur,s
% ms Farm Insects" when he wrote: ~ ~
Ihey (1nsects) annu lily consume AN amonnt 90 o