Show CRICKETS DEVOUR HOMESTEAD CROPS DENVER Colo Aug 12 By By The Associated Press The Press The chirping in insect In- In Insect insect sect so often associated with hearth hearthstones hearthstones stones Is signaling disaster for home home- homesteaders homesteaders homesteaders In Moffat Routt and Rio Blanco counties Colorado where mil rail millions millions lions of the Insects are arc devouring the crops Thomas lies commissioner of Moffat county has appealed to feder feder- federal al at authorities to lo aid in the in- in sects He declared many homestead homestead- homesteaders ers have ha abandoned their claims after their crops were eaten by and that more than half a million acres of government land was Infested with the insects |