Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — THE GYPSY MOTH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE GYPSY MOTH.

An Insect Which Has Cost the Country Thousands of Dollars. The rogue’s gallery of the agricultural department has, during the past season, been enriched by the’ addition of several pictures of offenders that are new to the entomological division. At the same time a good many old and notorious criminals of the Insect world, those that are most audacious and destructive In their methods, are at large

In various parts of the country. They have all been black-listed, and their descriptions and pictures have been scattered broadcast by the government. The gypsy moth has perhaps caused the most destruction and waste of money thus far, and it is estimated that close upon a half million dollars has been spent in the effort to stamp him out

THE GYPSY MOTH.