Mice Demolish Grain Crop
BRISBANE. Mice, nesting in cracks in the parched earth, have this year invaded a grain-growing area in Queensland in the wake of a prolonged drought. The mice have eaten their way through acres of grain and have invaded homestead kitchen gardens. Farmers fighting the plague say the mice swarm into the grain paddocks, chew the stalks and then devour the ears. Harvests have been drastically reduced.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29067, 2 December 1959, Page 27
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