We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
