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Excerpt from Agriculture of New-York, Vol. 5 I have not attempted, in the preparation of this work, to place before my readers an account of all the rare and newly discovered insects of New York and new-england, but have confined myself to those which are most common and widely distributed. The rare and the local possess an interest in the eyes of the learned but those which are daily met with in the fields and in our walks, are the ones our interests demand us to know: the former do neither harm nor good; but a familiar acquaintance with the forms and habits of the common and widely spread, is an indispensable preliminary towards enabling the husbandman to take advantage of the services they may be made to render him, or to protect his premises and the fruits of his labor from the depredations of noxious broods. This view has mainly con trolled our undertaking as the work is designed for those who are supposed to be mere beginners in entomology, and perhaps intend to prosecute the study no farther than practical results will warrant, it was thought fit to restrict the field of investigation to such insects as are sufficiently numerous to interfere in some way with the prosperity or comforts of the dwellers in this northern portion of our country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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