CATERPILLAR PLAGUE
DISTRICT IN QUEENSLAND FARMERS LOSE THEIR CROPS Tho wliple of the southern portion of tho Fassifern district, Queensland, was recently a teeming mass of caterpillars, and the plague was menacing the Upper Logan district on a 20-mile front stretching in an almost unbroken line from Gleneagle to Bathdowjiey. Reports from Mount Alford indicated that many farmers had lost their entire crops. They were experimenting with many kinds of poison baits, also flamethrowers, but the hordes continued to increase. Unless collective destruction was ordered and carried out by the authorities the whole of Fassifern and Beaudesert shire;- were in danger of being denuded of crops and grasses. This made the outlook for the winter a serious one.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22389, 8 April 1936, Page 7
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118CATERPILLAR PLAGUE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22389, 8 April 1936, Page 7
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