AUSTRALIAN CROPS
damaged by weather AND GRASSHOPPERS
Bee 8.30 p.m. SYDNEY. Nov. 1. Grasshoppers heavy rain and winds are damaging wheat crops over large area= o' New South Wales The harve Twill be delayed in some areas, and farmers fear wheat rust Grasshoppers have not yet damaged much wheat, but have stripped many acres of pasture lucerne and clover crops. At Orange the damage to wheat by rain and wind may be 30 per, cent, of the total crop. The weather is unsettled, but the rain is abating.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26608, 3 November 1947, Page 5
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