Show destruction BY INSECTS iii ix IN AMERICA the annual loss to productive industries industry ic s in the united states state s caused by insects insect s is is estimated at here is a fair battle between man and another sort of earth occupiers oc they are sni smaller tiller but if f tile they can whip us have undoubted undoubtedly adly as good a rii ri lidil I it to t lip world as we have As civilization civili lation advances new insects make inake their appearance marching sometimes eastward but generally westward there are few if a any ny forms of vegetation that have tio no parasites that th t devour either cither or fruit tho the loss to lo the cott cotton on is is estimated at a year while that to the apple crop is not much less sand and that to the potato crop at least one baffas much but the estimate is not a lair tair one until into the loss is counted the time lime spent in fighting to secure the 1 ro portion that is saved |