Show PLAGUE OF I 1 agricultural interests Inte recta alarmed at their ravages there 1 Is every probability of the plague of locusts which has now descended on egypt proving a very serl cum ou one creat anxiety la Is felt tor for the young cotton and other crops the locusts first arrive in campara com para small numbers hut but they multi ply very rapidly as scon soon as they each the edge of within tea ten days the young insects still wingless advance in a solid phalanx sometimes two or three feet deep and several everal miles in length it Is essential that at this stage they should be destroyed as an it would be impossible to check the ravages of flying locusts loeu ats the method adopted during the last visitation that of 1890 was to dig deep trenches sometimes miles in length between which and the advancing swarm hugo huge heaps of straw were laid and fired any locusts which succeeded in escaping the flames and smoke fell into the trenches where they were destroyed by nati tinder under the supervision of english instructors it la to a providential habit of young locusts never to turn back or aside when once start ed no matter what obstacles are put in their way cairo correspondence london dally mall |