PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS
DARLING DOWNS VISITED BRISBANE, October 15. For the second year in succession, wheat growers of Darling Downs are threatened with reduced yields owing to ft visitation of caterpillars.- So far the plague has been confined to isolated districts, but growers fear extensions. The heaviest damage reported to date 1 is from Junabec, where one crop of 35 acres of wheat was so badly riddled as to make it valueless, Another farmer at Mount Sturt, who expected 10 bags per acre, will be lucky to obtain three ■ or four bags. i This is believed-to be the first occai sion in the history of Darling Downs i that there has been a plague of enter- > pillars in two successive seasons. The ; present, visitation is not nearly as extoni sive as that of Inst year, when grows ing crops of wheat, maize, lucerne and , I potatoes were devastated. On that been- ’ i sion tlie Grubs moved in countless- mili lions and held up trains on Killarney j line.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 16
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168PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 16
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