insect foes of mankind when it cames to actual facts and figures of the financial losses caused pests papers md and reports of expert investigators connected with our agricultural department part ment at washington and our agri cultural stations elsewhere furnish furnis lithe the ahlee and largest resource the fig ores area given here are truly staggering in their immensity thus we have it on the authority of dr howard that the actual money loss occasioned by insect pests in this country every year Is not less than 35 accord ing to dr howard the grasshopper pest which visited large areas of the west in 1874 76 destroyed farm crops to the value of in im a single VMS acason