PLAGUE OF GNATS
KANSAS AND ARKANSAS HEAT WAVE KILLS COUNTLESS MILLIONS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, May 7. Deadly clouds of Buffalo gnats which swarmed over Kansas and Arkansas farms recently are being killed in countless millions by a heat wave. The plague was so bad that many fanners herded their live stock into barns. Two thousand horses and mules died in one Arkansas district last week. The larger animals get their throats and lungs clogged with the gnats, while pigs and poultry' die from loss of blood.
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Evening Star, Issue 21715, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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87PLAGUE OF GNATS Evening Star, Issue 21715, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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