Outlines of entomology: Prepared for the use of farmers and horticulturists. At the request of the secretary of the State board of agriculture and the ... horticultural society of Missouri (Volume 2)

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Outlines of Entomology: Prepared for the Use of Farmers and Horticulturists, at the Request of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and the ... Society of Missouri (Classic Reprint)

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Entomology, the primary object has been to supply a need of the farmer and horticulturist. For while the ravages of noxious insects have an indirect effect upon the prosperity and convenience of every one, it is to the agriculturist more directly that their absence or prevalence brings financial success or failure. It is true that there are already almost innumerable publications, many of them of great value, on the subject of economic entomology, as well as those of more strictly scientific importance, all of which are accessible to any inquirer; but it is undeniable that a lack of some general knowledge of the life histories of insects, and an unfamiliarity with many of the terms used in description, deprive those for whom they are prepared of a large share of ihe benefit they might derive from them. I do not ignore the fact that this want has been realized by many of our most distinguished entomologists, and that several text-books have been prepared to meet it; but the objective to these is, that the authors have gone into the subject too thoroughly, have dwelt upon points of structure that the business man has neither time nor skill to trace out, have discussed phenomena that are chiefly interesting to the philosopher, and which make the study seem too abstruse. The following pages are an attempt at something more elementary, remembering that there are those who have yet to learn the difference between a beetle and a bug, or between a moth and a butterfly; to whom the transformations of insects offer a puzzle which they cannot solve, and who are completely daunted and discouraged by a half-dozen successive technical terms. This little introduction aims to help the beginner over some of the first difficulties he is liable to encumber in taking up the subject systematically, and the author hopes it will be the means of attracting him to the study of the m (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Outlines of entomology: Prepared for the use of farmers and horticulturists. At the request of the secretary of the State board of agriculture and the State horticultural society of Missouri

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