POLISHED WALL, FOR LOCUSTS.
r British factories have received an order t from Argentina worth £500,000. It is for s hundreds of miles of very smooth gal- . vanised iron sheeting, to be erected lilce - walls across the country to stop invading - locusts. It is when the locust is a craw- - ler, before his wings develop, that he be- - gins his devastating route march, and that is the stage to catch him. A polished wall of iron sheeting rd prove too smooth to climb, and if the loI custs crawl along the barrier, the opening > they find will be no breach in the defences, '■ but the mouth of a trap. Men will be there with rakes and a pit to destroy them in.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 3
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122POLISHED WALL, FOR LOCUSTS. Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 3
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