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Show Wage Successful War on Pest. The worst enemy of the grape growers grow-ers in California is a minute insect called the "thunder fly," because it appears ap-pears in greatest numbers in hot and sultry weather, when thunder storms j are frequent. A man out there has invented in-vented a suction apparatus, with a ten-horsepower ten-horsepower blower, that is placed on wheels and driven through the vineyards, vine-yards, harvesting the pests from the vines as it goes along. It is said to work very successfully. |