PLAGUE OF MICE.
SYDNEY, May 1. A conference of the Western District’s branches of the Agricultural Bureau resolved to ask the Government, in view of the widespread damage resulting from the mouse plague, to negotiate with the Pasteur Institute to introduce virus for the spread of disease among mice. Statements have been made showing that mice are still widely ravaging the wheatfields; also that the last mouse plague caused the loss of wheat valued at £1,000,000, besides untold loss on farms and in homes. May 5. Since the rain last week, Riverina reports a marked increase in mice. Considerable damage has been done to the wheat dumps and chaff stacks. It is feared that the trouble will he much worse when the cold weather comes. In some places the visitation is of the same proportion as that of three years back, when hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of damage was done to the stacked wheat.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 19
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156PLAGUE OF MICE. Otago Witness, Issue 3556, 9 May 1922, Page 19
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