GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA
rivi; i-ntomoi.omsts join IN I>K.T.N< |. ! i SYUNKV. Ociooci 1. ! ot grasshoppers arc ad ,'vancing on a 120-miie front towaio j1 he wheat fields of Darlin;.> Dowi;.il'rt'in Queensland, and desperate elforts are being made: by ollieet's o, tin: Queensland Department of Agri culture and landowner:- to stem t!i iulague. ; Five entomologist.- air i-iini-".:ii!ra;-,n,", their efforts in an endeavour to ; save the crops. Baits have been j j aid with a fair measure of succe.-.- ' and in some districts attempts ale jbeing made to bum the pesls. ■ A landowner in the Coonabaia | pran district. New South Wale..•mistered 1000 sheep on an .'KJ-aci e I natch of grasshonpe'r-infestod i'-ountry, but so numerous were the | pests that they were not notiecabk ,' affected by the tramping of tie i sheep, as the owner had hoped.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21284, 2 October 1934, Page 11
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134GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21284, 2 October 1934, Page 11
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