Show OLD AND NEW IN FIGHT TIGHT ON LOCUSTS And Strangely Doth Both Methods Proved ed Effective The ancient and the modern continue continue con ron to 0 flourish side by side In 1 Km East t Africa but Lut perhaps no more striking example of ot that platitudinous nb observation er than two incidents In in- Incidents was 89 ever given In Kenya recently A few fe days a ago o the manager of ot n a large s sugar estate near Nairobi rushed Into town late In the afternoon after noon and Informed the directors that thata n a s va vast t swarm of ot locusts had 11 settled In the sugar cane Thousands of ot pounds were at stake Two directors made malle a n quick desperate des des- l erate decision the only hope was to disturb the time t swarm Irm they bey hired a n three airplane and hurried In It to the e estate tate l low the The fhe machine w over r cane but hut there was not n a single sign of ot locusts Turning they Hew a n few tew feet from front the ground with all nil three engines roaring Suddenly the locusts rose lose In a dense cloud Time TIle machine shot Into the sky and maneuvered over O the swarm arm which slowly moved mO to a n 1 swamp a few miles away and awny th the cane was saved BRed But Dut listen t A farmer In the Bridge e district Kenya who L by deserate desperate desperate des des- erate efforts had hall managed to sure sar I his maize during the past weeks while nil all the crops around him had I been blen cleaned up was In de despair when he lie saw n large swarm op ap- p pouching Having done everything thing he could coull he be finally remembered that one of or his natty employees was wall suspected of at heln being n a witch witch doctor doctor lie Ill Invoked this mans man's help The wizard nn an elderly native e clad In lo and wearing the time usual charms associated with the craft pulled a amaize amaize maize malre stalk from the center of ot the healthiest part of the crop and slow slow- f slowly OW ly Iy walked round and through the maize using the stalk ns as n wand and ond tumut muttering ten jig The swarm descended and the fa farmer cursed th the flue witchdoctor but the time latter wild said and see Sl The fact Is that the swarm destroyed de cle- n a f small patch of or Inferior e but left leCt the large urea of ot healthy balth crop untouched The fhe ROV government go eminent of It cour course t does docs oes not adopt either method Its Us PT- PT ports put l poisoned bran halt bait on the tha ground knowing that the greedy millions of at young joung Insects sill feed feedon feedon on It and die Montreal Montreal Herald terald f |