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Excerpt from The Principles of Insect Control The branch of Biological Science known generally as Economic Entomology has made enormous strides within the last ten or fifteen years. Its progress may be said to be an outcome of the greater attention that is being paid to Agricultural Science. Improved methods of transport have given the Agriculturist and Horticulturist a wider outlet for his produce, and the wheat fields of Manitoba and Illinois, the fruit orchards of California, Australia, and South Africa, the cattle ranches of Argentina and New Zealand, the cotton fields of Egypt and India, Uganda and Louisiana, have benefited accordingly. This wide distribution of food stuffs has brought about a corresponding increase in the range of injurious Insect pests, so that the adequate recognition of Economic Entomology and the scientific application of Insect Control measures are of increasing importance. In no branch of human knowledge, perhaps, has a more extensive literature accumulated in a shorter period of time. The literature concerning Economic Entomology has, in fact, become unwieldy, consisting as it does, to a large extent, of short articles or brief notes scattered throughout a wide range of scientific and technical journals, inaccessible very often to the average scientific man, and, as often as not, published in an unfamiliar language. Short abstracts of many such articles are published monthly in the Review of Applied Entomology, the Experimental Station Record, and the Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases (Rome), but no attempt has as yet been made to put forward a digest, a general resume, of the progress of this branch of Science during the last twenty years. 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.