The Power of Little Things.
In a recent book by Frank Koester, entitled "The Price of Inefficiency," the statements are made of this country: "We waste $650,000,000 a year through losses to growing crops, fruit-trees, grain in storage, etc., by noxious insects." "We waste $267,000,000 a year through the attacks of flies, fleas, ticks, and other insects, on animal life." The same work declares that there is a loss of $93,000,000 a year in live stock due to disease, of which $40,000,000 is due to Texas fever, while tuberculosis, scabies, and cholera come next. But think of the far greater value of human life lost from disease germs, many of which are brought by fleas, flies, mosquitoes, and other germ carriers. No other loss equals that from these minute and microscopic foes. Is it a wonder that the prophet likens them to a great devastating army?