Image from page 249 of “Community civics and rural life” (1920)
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Identifier: communitycivicsr01dunn
Title: Community civics and rural life
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Dunn, Arthur William, 1868-1927
Subjects: Country life
Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] O. C. Heath & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and feed products to the value of 0,000,000 a year are destroyed by prairie dogs, ground squirrels, and other rodents. It is said that prairie dogs often take half the pasturage of western cattle ranges. It is estimated that the killing of wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, and lynxes saved more than ,000,000 worth of livestock in 1918. Floods have destroyed 0,000,000 in property in the Mississippi Valley alone. 231 232 COMMUNITY CIVICS The loss from fire in the United States is said to equal thevalue of our total product of gold, silver, copper, and petroleum. The buildings consumed by fire in 1914, if placed on lots of 65 feet front-age, would line both sides of a street extending from New York to Chicago.A person journeying along this street of desolation would pass in every thou-sand feet a ruin from which an injured person was taken. At every threefourths of a mile in this journey he would encounter the charred remainsof a human being who has been burned to death.1
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A Cornfield Ruined by Ground Squirrels Protection against loss of property is one of the chief servicesperformed for us by our government. We have already notedThe service of m Chapter XII what a great deal of work bothgovernment j-j^ national and state governments are doing toprevent loss of crops and of livestock from disease, insects, andother causes (see pp. 148-155). What this may mean to theindividual farmer and to the country is suggested by the caseof a farmer who had hundreds of acres of corn destroyed in some 1 The Fire Tax and Waste of Structural Materials in the United States, Bul-letin 814, U. S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY 133- manner unknown to him. A single visit from a representative??of the Department of Agriculture showed him the cause of thetrouble, the corn rootworm, and how it could be eradicated bya simple rotation of crops. The farmer said that this knowledgewould save him ,000 a year.
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