| Show Dest destroying royina locusts the plague of locusts in the west w es t and northwest has become so serious bertous that the most strenuous efforts are to be made to devise some means by which they may be destroyed one experiment peri ment is identical with that employed for destroying chinch bugs A number of insects are inoculated with a fungus disease and turned loose among the locusts in various localities the result is that the di disease spreads ads rapidly and sweeps off entire colonies of the insects this means of ridding the country of a pest is a great discovery but it entails possibilities that are by no means agreeable to contemplate the sparrow was imported to destroy caterpillars and now it has become necessary in some localities to take the most thorough measures to lo get rid of the sparrows As tar far as the locusts are concerned nothing could be worse than their devast devastation atio n and we may well take the chances on clearing them out by the help of imported fungus |
