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Show Will Fence Against Locusts Buenos Aires. Thirty-nine thousand thous-and tons of galvanized steel sheets are to be us-ed as barriers to stop the ravages of locusts in the agricultural regions of northern Argentina. The department of agriculture signed a $5,000,000 contract for the material with the United States Steel Products Pro-ducts company The sheets will be distributed to the farmers, who will erect them when the locusts appear, each farmer digging a ditch in front of the barriers', into which the marching march-ing locusts will accumulate and be destroyed. |