Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1917 — Man's Beet Friend. [ARTICLE]

Man's Beet Friend.

A recent issue ot the Canadian Forestry Journal, published by the Canadian Forestry association, contains an Interesting article on the damage wrought by insects and the increasing and successful warfare carried on against Insects by birds, certain animals and reptiles. “It has been estimated,” says the Journal, “by those who give this question study and thought •'leading Into actual statistics that, were there no friends allied by nature. In the great struggle between man and his enemy Insects, that In three years there would be no life left on the earth. Vegetation would disappear first, and animal life would accompany and follow IL