Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under such conditions the elms are doomed within five years, but it is possible that they may be saved by an extreme pollarding. This, of course, would forever destroy the grace and beauty of the trees, and the question is whether to let them die in their present condition or to attempt to preserve them at the expense of what beauty they still retain...
...would do much toward saving the great loss from insects, if it were adequately protected from extermination. The lecturer gave a vivid illustration of the good done by such common birds as the kingbird by stating that although the latter is accused of eating bees, one family of kingbirds destroy annually from 12,000 to 15,000 harmful insects...