The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-03-02

is going to be disappointed shall be sorry. 1
nM often expressed the wish all myself that
IwWVI this circle might all be Emerson Tamadges or
Henry Georges but that here and there for varety sake
IMHk9kI there might be Mark Twain Mr. Dooley" or
George Fitch Variety the e
OF these protecting walls Whatever humorous psychological phases
as applicable this subject suggest compelled by
natural limitations forgo the pleasure
speculative standpoint shall merely for few divert
attention from things lofty (up in the air speak,
direct to miniature world beneath considerng go
along, its relation Natures larger sphere.
Who among in his youthful days. has the
cal account of the Egyptian plaques with wonder and
thing outside the realm of possibilities able
nomenon only on grounds AND this old world
has the invoked
and that
perence of in all The polluted waer
invading and filling the habaons peoples fes
of beasts and bos pesence hail ghning
that covered the earth and devoued
for three days and nights and finally the death
had their in the natural history the
events have seldom been recorded with such
Let me relate little of experience to which
doubedly most of you could add further chapters.
My earliest recall the grassboppes
7Os how they swooped down along
Minnesota Valley making their home for
ing thing, leaving their voacious
the wooden buildings, board any
clothing that might and then spring
having hatched
settlers about the fight they
mysteriousy they had In the early
marched mighty valleys other
states leaving leaf the oak
Trains often stalled their presence upon
the rails In 1894 and 1895
Egyptian louise, the chnch bug multiplied along
fringe of timber piles
in fact wherever little shelter could be
found The hinch bug destroyer prckng
of the and giving juices
destroying the plant have march and of
splendid fields leaving promised only
dry rafting stalks have the wheel sandy
bugs of vehicle driven along the road
looked they had through houses
they crawed into the that they would be
with the they would crawl leg They
smeled o
fire.
From the
to his his live stock and msen rivaine
of ancient times have been visited upou the earth from time to time
Although ancient literature aludes the locust greatest
the hessian fly the boil weev
kinds and the chnch bug have much
presently
agreed crucial struggle of humanity
will not be that of nations warning for territory will
royal keep from being driven off the earth ITSELF
OF life extngushed different periods of the
existence. In this will be against bugs.
By its of production, comparative
times equivalent what would be- the large
horse 1000 horsepowerts Appetite tenacy
ing and its adaptably conditions, the kingdom
human comparatively helpless.
Professor Eaand, of worlds enomologists
1t is fortunate for that the world house divided
itself Except this check
tnct in five TO illustrate the reproducing
insects, Professor Huxley estimated that fly
generations produce equivalent
lion human beings The southern boil weev prolific
1t estimated that in from generations
result the total number which during
million All the other which
multiply in like alarming
The damage by swarms is almost beyond
calculation The United States Agricultural Department estimated
that annual damage of 40 million dollars
fly to the small grain of the Mississippi Valley 30 million
the boil weevil to the the
the coddng moth to the fruit and million by chinch bugs
The damage the South Africa by locus
million dollars
lion.
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