| Show OLD AND NEI NEW W IN FIGHT ON LOCUSTS and Stra strangely gely bcd bath methods proved effective the ancient and the modern continue to flour flourish ish side by side in east africa but perlin perhaps ps no more striking example of that platitudinous observation was ever given thun than two incidents in ken kenya ya recently A f few ew days ago the manager of a large sugar estate near nairobi r rushed asbe d int into 0 town late in the afternoon and inform informed ed theAl the directors rectors that a vast swarm 0 of f locusts had settled in the sugar cane thousands or 0 pounds were at at stake two directors made a quick desperate decision realizing the only hope was to disturb the warm they hired a three airplane and hurried tn in it to the estate the machine passed low over the cane hut but there was not a single sign of locusts turning they hew flew a few feet from the ground with nil all three engines roaring suddenly the locusts rose in a dense cloud the machine shot into the sky and maneu maneuvered vere d over the swarm which slowly moved to a swamp a few miles away and the cane was caved but listen I 1 A former farmer in the hodys bridge district who bades by desperate efforts biad h ad managed to save his maize darlng abe the past weeks while all the crops around been cleaned up was in despair when he saw a large swarm approaching pro aching having done everything he could he be finally remembered that one of 0 mis his natly employees was suspected of being a witch doctor he invoked this mans help the wizard an elderly native clad in skins and wearing the usual charms charma associated with the craft pulled a maize stalk from the center of the healthiest part of the crop and slowly walked round and through the malze maize using the stalk as ag a wand and muttering the swarm descended and the farmer cursed the witchdoctor witch doctor but the latter said walt wait and see the fact la Is that the swarm destroyed a small patch of inferior maize but left the large area of healthy crop untouched the government of course does not adopt either method its experts put poisoned bran bait on the ground k knowing that the greedy millions of young insects will feed on it and dle die montreal family herald |
