GRASSHOPPERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 16

GRASSHOPPERS.

MILLIONS AT DUBBO. APPEAL TO- ‘GOVERNMENT. DUBBO (IS.S.W.), Nov. 26. lue liteu i«jr uepaiuiieiitai acuon in Vim- me g. pest nus cmjjuasiseu lit die lnOUiiu y. meeiiiig ox tiic Odubu- P.T. ixuard to-uay. \\ ueu n uas ueciued to asK die iVii/r----1.-jLet m .-Lgi-jeu.mio to take some action 1,, l.no Ci-all-Si'. . ai;. 1. m. tsc-otc (Bti noway) said thm die grasshoppers near Ins place bad been parsing, lor days in tens of millions. They were as thick as a snowstorm. lie was of opinion that, when the eggs they were laying were hatched, in five or six weeks, the grasshoppers, in their greatly increased numbers, would be •» terrible menace. .In Argentina, he said, the Government was combating the grasshopper pest with a large measure of success. In addition to breeding a, ffy that was the natural enemy of°the grasshopper, the department sent out ice.'!, who. on seeing the approach of .swarms, commandeered labour and constructed iron fences, with ditches sometimes 0(1 miles long. These iences were very 'effective.

Mr. A. G. Ochiltree .stated that in .pouth Africa the Government was combating die plague bv meant, of a luugus. Mi'- W. E. Tink stated that there was a swarm of u 'cssliopners halfway between k Hill -ind Dubbo. He wns of opinion that, had there not been such an extraordinary growth of b*vhage this year, many wheat padrb'ok.s would have been cleared out a! readv.