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Show EGYPT'S PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS. Agricultural Interests Alarmed at Their Ravages. Tlioro Is overy probability of tho plnguo of locusts -which has now do-Bconded do-Bconded on Egypt proving n very serious seri-ous one. Great anxiety lsfelt for tho young cotton,nnd other crops. The locusts first nrrlvo In comparatively compara-tively small numbers, but they multiply multi-ply very rapidly as soon ns thoy reach tho edgo of cultivation. Within ton days tho young Insects, still wingless, ndvanco In a nolld phalanx, sometimes two or throo foot deop and several miles in length. It Is essential that at this stngo they should bo destroyed as It would bo Imposslblo to check tho ravngoB of flying locusts. Tho method adopted .during tho last visitation, that of 1890, was to dig deop trenches, sometimes miles in length,' botweon which and tho advancing ad-vancing swarm hugo heaps of straw woro laid nnd fired. Any locusts which succeeded In escaping tho flames and smoko foil into tho trenches, vnoro thoy pworo destroyed if b,y. nntlvos under tho supervision or .English instructors. It is a providential providen-tial habit of young locusts novcr to turn back or nsldo when onco started, start-ed, no matter what obstacles aro put In their way. Cairo correspondence London Dnlly Mall. |