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Show HtranE l-lf '" Arieullna. Prof Lawrenco llruner, who ipent tbo year 1B3S Investigating the grasshopper grass-hopper plague In Argentina, says a-at only Australia could match Argentina In tho singularity of Its life formi, It Is a country where everything protects Itielf. "The tree! have thorni, tho grasses and weeds are provided with thorni and iharp biodce, and herbn-ceous herbn-ceous plants ure ihlelded with bun. Forests exist where ralm are scarcest, and natives lay that lometlmei when heavy rains fall tbo trees die from too much moliture. Some blrdi, belonging belong-ing to tho tamo order as our waterfowl, water-fowl, avoid water. Many Argentine birds poiicii ipurs on their wlngi. |