Show DEALING WITH LOCUST PLAGUE methods method employed by the hc dwellers dweller lo iff algeria algeria and tunis have harp this year suffered from an extraordinary inva aion sion of locusts the locusts arrive from the direction of the deserts I 1 la in swarms so thick as to hide the sun the cover the ground as with ith a yel low carpet and sometimes render tho the railways so slipper that thai the trains can hardly run at I 1 his stag I 1 they ate aie not lora oracious cious being engaged principally in la ing thair eggs rut but 40 days later the oung locusts not yet winged begin to run about devouring evory green thing including not only leaves but even the bark ard tender shoots shoot of trees the hordes advancing in a bod bad sometimes cover an area of 0 sev eral square miles barricades of cloth surrounded with nith wax wac strips erected in the line of march arrest the progress of the insects which are unable to crawl up tile the smooth surface pai pasting along the line of the ba the tall fall into ditches dug for the pur pose where they ate aie killed hilled with corrosive liquids another method is to smooth descending paths ending in poisoned ditches the insects injects follow the descents and thus go to their deaths youths companion |