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Show Therefore, Protect Insectivorous Birds INSECTS are cost the people of the United States Jl.100.000,000 a year through their Inroads on fruits, grain and vegetables. Tbe ultimate consumer In the end pays for the crops these Insects destroy, de-stroy, through higher prices. With $1,100,000,000 every year the government could Foot tbe bill of 5,000 disarmament conferences like tbe one held in Washington Wash-ington last year. Pay half the total cost of federal government operation. Run an army three times the present pres-ent size. Pay all current naval bills twice and have money left over. Here's the official list of these ma- Jraudors and the annual board bill of i-ach: Grasshoppers, $.'0,000,000; chinch bugs, $00,000,000; Hessian flies, $10,000,000 ; corn root worms, $20,000,-000; $20,000,-000; com ear worms. $20,0(K),000; cotton cot-ton boll weevils, $2,000,000 ; cotton boll worms, $12,000,000; cotton lenf worms, J8.000.000; apple Coddling moths, $20,- j 000,000; grain weevils, $10,000,000; p-I p-I tato btigi, $8,000,000; army worms, $15,000,000; cal.tsge worms, $3,000,- 000; Run .'oe scales. $ 10,000,000. ! t i . The total eaten by these pests amounts roundly to one-tenth of the total to-tal farm produce of the United States. But pests destroy 30 per cent of all the fruits grown every year and 20 per cent of the vegetables. The chinch bug, with the biggest appetite ap-petite of all. mounting to $00,000,000 a year, affects Ohio, Indiana, southern Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Sometimes It Invades In-vades the southeastern const states. . Grasshoppers, with a $50,000,000 appetite, ap-petite, are more or less common throughout the whole United States. The boll weevil, which feeds on the cotton' plnnt, confines "Ha activities to the cotton-growing statvs ef the South. Other cotton pests bring the total annual an-nual destruction bill Up to $140,031,10 |