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Excerpt from The War That Never Ends: Facts About Pest Control; May, 1965Even with modern pest control methods, insects, diseases, nematodes, and weeds still cause damage estimated at more than $10 billion annually to crops and livestock, a loss amounting to nearly one-fourth of our total yearly production. The cost of controlling these pests comes to over billion a year.Some Species of insects in the United States are classed as public enemies, of which several hundred are particularly destructive and require some measure of control. Other pests capable of causing serious economic loss include 600 weed species, plant diseases, and species of nematodes (microscopic worms).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.