Lanterna Rally

Author: F. H. Chittenden

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-26

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781331983729

Excerpt from Insects Injurious to Vegetables Among the hordes of insect foes with which the American farmer has to deal, those affecting vegetable crops are in many respects most troublesome. Vegetable plants are exceptionally perishable, and the control of their insect enemies entails a very considerable expenditure of money and time. The annual losses due to insect attack on vegetable crops is estimated at 20 per cent., or double that of the average farm crop. The injurious vegetable-feeding forms outnumber in species the insect enemies of any other single class of crops, excepting possibly deciduous fruits, and this nearly endless variety of pests necessitates information in regard to each. Many are intermittent in attack, hence the grower should be forewarned in order to guard against injury or to check it before irreparable damage has been accomplished. The progressive vegetable grower should be as amply equipped with knowledge as the fruit grower, and if he would be entirely successful in avoiding losses from insect ravages he should be provided with a complete outfit for spraying operations and should keep on hand or know where to obtain at short notice a good supply of necessary insecticides. The more general observance of certain farming methods with a view to the prevention of insect injury will greatly lessen the losses from this source. Until within recent years few farmers in planning the management of the farm for the season considered the effect which any given method of tillage would have upon injurious insects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.