Show DEALING WITH LOCUST PLAGUE methods employed by the dwellers in algeria algeria and tunis have this year suffered from an extraordinary inva sion of locusts the locusts arrive from the direction of the beerts in swarms so thick as to hide the sun they cover the ground as with a yel low carpet and sometimes render the railways so slippery that the trains can hardly run at this stage they are not voracious being engaged principally in laying their eggs but 40 days later the young locusts not yet winged be gin to run about devouring every green thing including not only leaves but even the bark and tender shoots of trees the hordes advancing in a body sometimes cover an area of sev eral square miles barricades ot cloth surrounded with wax strips erected in the line of march arrest the ress of the insects which are unable crawl up the smooth surface pass ing along the line of the barricades they fall into ditches dug for the pur pose where they are killed with cor liquids another method is to smooth descending paths ending in poisoned ditches the infects follow the descents and thus go to their deaths youth s companion |