Show OLD AND NEW IN FIGHT ON LOC LOCUSTS and strangely both methods method 8 proved effective the ancient and the modern con agnue to flourish side bide by side in E east ast africa but perhaps a ps no more st striking example of that platitudinous observation was ever eve r given than two incidents in kenya recently A few days ago the manager of a large sugar estate near nairobi rushed into town late ate in the afternoon and informed the directors direct ora that a vast swarm of locusts ha had d settled in the sugar cane thousands of pounds were 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 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 a few feet from the aroud ground d with all three engines roaring suddenly the locusts rose in a dense cloud the machine shot into the sky and maneuvered over the swarm which slowly moved to a swamp a few A miles lies away and the tha cane was wag saved but listen I 1 A farmer in the hodys bridge district kenya who by desperate efforts had bad managed to save his maize during the past weeks while all the crops around him had been cleaned up was in despair when he be saw sav a large swarm ap preaching having done everything lie he could he finally remembered that one of his natt v 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 odthe the crop and slowly walked houi round id and through the maize using the stalk as awand and muttering the swarm descended and the tha farmer cursed the witchdoctor witch doctor but the latter said walt and see the fact Is that the swarm destroyed st a small patch of interior inferior maize but left the large area ot of healthy crop untouched the government of course does not adopt either method its experts put poisoned bran balt on the gr ground aund knowing that the greedy millions of young insects will feed on it and dle die mon montreal treal family herald |