Times Independent | 1923-02-01 | Page 8 | Plant Insects and Pests Add to High Cost of Living

PLANT INSECTS AND PESTS ADD TO HIGH COST OF LIVING although the average person doe does not pay any attention to insects which prey upon plants and trees the injury done by these pests contributes not a little to the high cost of living this is evidenced by a bulletin just issued by the department of agriculture up on those insects which prey on apple trees tree and apples there are 60 differ ent varieties of such insect pests and they entail an annual loss of at least lent to the apple crop to this amount should be added the loss toss of trees which in infected orchards is very h hiffa h the bulletin states every grecu year ear the loss to the apple crop due to insects ii Is not less than thin ten en per cent of the total crop value and frequently runs as high as 20 per cent