OIL FROM LOCUSTS.
PEST WHICH 'H,AS SOME GOOD PROPERTIES.
Locusts, the.gteafeit Rest to crops that South Africa pocsajjSes, 'pTaVide-.'Et Aon detful aeto.plar.d engine oil. They are being exported ftort South Africa for that /mt-poSe. The “Railway Genital Aianagdrs" Bill lelin,” issued in Johnnneislnirg, states that eighl.vmight, bales of locusts, weighi,tig approximately eighteen tops, wore forwarded rdcently from K.nzeurie to Durban for shipment to Holland, The locusts will be used principally for feeding livestock and poultry, whilr a small proportion of oil xx ill he extracted and used ih connection with aeroplane engines.
■Special propertic-S are reported to have been found in the pil, .which is said to retain its liquidity at a Vet-y high .n 11i-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16578, 6 November 1924, Page 3
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116OIL FROM LOCUSTS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16578, 6 November 1924, Page 3
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