DRIVES AWAY PESTS
STRANGE GRASS FOUND
(Received February 18, 11.30 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, February 17,
Mr. Thomas Henry, science editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance, reports that thousands of square miles of northern South America and Central America may be opened for colonisation through an English doctor's discovery of a strange grass in Caracas. Venezuela, which drives away mosquitoes, ticks, and snakes. The doctor, Edward Morgan, has already produced seeds of the grass in large quantities and supplied the Government of Venezuela.
The Pan-American Sanitary Bureau states that analysis shows that the grass, which is a species o* Melinis multiflora, is a very rich pasture for horses, cows, and mules, but is probably unsuitable for sheep.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1941, Page 6
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