Waste

At various times various people have estimated that the U. S. loses annually these sums from these causes:

Crime: $12,000,000,000.

The Common Cold: $2,000,000,000.

Automobile accidents: $1,600,000,000.

Occupational accidents: $610,000,000.

Accidents in the Home: $590,000,000.

Public accidents: $450,000,000.

Fire: $248,763,856.

Hessian fly: $150,000,000.

Cattle ticks: $100,000,000.

Coddling moth: $20,000,000.

Ox warble (a pest): $10,000,000.

Prairie dogs in Nebraska: $80,000.

Last week Professor Wilfred William Robbins of University of California's College of Agriculture announced that weeds cost the U. S. $3,000,000,000 a year. With weed waste included, the annual U. S. wastage appears to be equal to nearly one half of the national income, which was $53,000,000,000 last year.

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