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Show LOCUSTS RUIN TREES IN HARR1MAN PARK STONY POINT. N. T., June II. Har-rlman Har-rlman park, tba 96,Ka,aov praaarva da-vlaad da-vlaad to New York -tale laat yaar by Mr. E. H. Harrtman and othar waalthy New Yorkers, haa baan attarkad by an army Of seventean-yaar locusts. Flying- f mm trae to trr. tha pasts attack at-tack the fn! las with an anarny that ap-pars ap-pars rorrnhonttlva of thlr Ions period of Idleness underground. Thay fasten on tha tn4r second year shouts and in flva minutes a twig- a foot Inns will la furrowed fur-rowed for Hs whola length. At Intervals ot about half in Inch, holes a quarter of an Inch dp are bored and In thesa are laid hundreds of tiny whits eggs about as blr ss tha head of a pin. Tha twlfs dl within a few weeks. Leaving tha trees badly scarred. |