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Excerpt from Insects Injurious to Staple Crops The sources of information concerning the insects affecting our staple crops are widely scattered throughout the bulletins of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations and of the United States Department of Agriculture, a few books on Economic Entomology, and various other publications. Few men but the entomologist have the desire or ability to glean an account of any given insect from the first-mentioned publications, if they know of the existence of others than those published by their own State station. The few books which have been written upon American Economic Entomology usually give but a brief and summary account of any given insect, too brief - it seems to the writer - to give a very clear understanding of the matter. In preparing the following pages the author has been more and more impressed by the fact that for the control of most of the worst insect pests of our staple crops, the farmer must depend very largely upon general methods of farm practice. This being the case, it is essential that he have a correct knowledge of the pest to be combated; such a knowledge of its life-history as will make plain the reason for the effect of any given procedure against it. 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.