GRASSHOPPERS.
Advance on 120-mile Front. • DESPERATE BATTLE. QUEENSLAND WHEATFIELDS IN DANGER. United Pr«*ss Assn.—By Klectric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 1. 11.35 a.m.) SYpXEY, October 1. Millions of grasshoppers are advancing on a 120-miles front towards j the wheat fields of Darling Downs. Queensland, and desperate efforts are being made by the officers of the Queensland Department of Agriculture J and landowners to stem the plague. Five entomologists are concentrating their efforts in an endeavour to > save the crops. Bait has been laid with : a fair measure of success, and in some districts attempts are being made to ! burn the pests. A landowner in the Coonabarabran district of New South Wales mustered 1000 sheep on an eighty-acre patch of grasshopper-infested country, but so numerous were the pests that they were not noticeably affected by the tramping of the sheep, as the owner had hoped.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20424, 1 October 1934, Page 1
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