Show OLD AND NIX NEW IN FIGHT ON LOCUSTS and strangely bolli boil Alet methods lIGIs proved eff effective active tue elie ancie ancient tit jud ind the alie modern con dinue to flourish slip ship bi side in last africa but perhaps no do more stil shilling kIng example of that I 1 inous than two in was avei glen cial rits in icen a ri cintli A few lays ngo ago tile nia nager of A large sugar estate din cuir r nairobi rushed into tow town late into in ill abo aftel noon and tile the that 11 biad ad settled a vast sv arm of locusts in the sugar cane thousands Iliou sands ot of pounds N vere ere at two directors mide a quick des decision tha only hope aa was to listille tile chev hired a ahrie ili ilane nd hurried in it to the estate the machine passed IW oer the cane ane but thele vaa nas not it a single sign of locusts they hew flew a few feet from tile ground with all three engines roaring suddenly the lounts lose in a dene cloud the machine eliot into the sky und and over the swarm which slowly moved to a I 1 swamp a few miles liay m ny and the cn cane clevs evs was sa saved ved but listen I 1 A farmer la in the llotys bridge district kluin n mio by data desperate efforts had managed to save hla his inalee inal se the past meeks while all the crops mound hiril had been i leaned up nas aa in despair when he fie saw a laige approaching pro aching having done enci thing lie he could lie he finally that one ot of his natty of p being a witch ditth docton lie ile invoked tills this jil billins lins help the wizard an elderly natile clad in skins anil wearing the usual charnis with the craft pulled a 8 anre talk stalk from the center ot of the healthiest part of the crop and slowly walked talked round and through the malye using the stall stalk na as a nand and and muttering tile debe descended ended and the farmer cursed tiie but the latter said bald walt valt and see ulie fact la Is that the saim destroyed a small patch of inferior maize but left the large area oi ol 01 healthy crop untouched the g rement of couise does not adopt either cither its ex parts put pol poisoned bran bait on the ground kno knowing NNIng that the greedy milli millions oils of boung insects will feed on it and aad die montreal family herald berall |