An Egyptian Plague.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1706, 13 July 1885, Page 2

An Egyptian Plague.

An Egyptian plasm, :.s ol o i. ■ ay. il.c ban TTancisco cone-p ad,id ol I A, ,M • Herald, lias gone .some Si:Ji:1 11 ; men i..a- to til ’ crops ami fruit. jm- or .--'■-■"o ei h.n,, anived in swarms, an ; ar- d -air '..a n P t i despoil us of our Minina r o;.- :-!• nc , i , one' ilisl) let 'dO.no:) young in . s : ..■.■■■ k. . de-lroved I y li.e insect.and a.gneu t! ; ; b, dies. In others ti.e l.muvis iia'.e lui: ! till ir hug,, ami cattle into the ,’ieeii he -n rather than lu.-e all by mo gnm.-bopp.-i, Id,. are descihad by a fanner us lvi,g akin in the Asiatic hx.-u.-U. and "wi'.h.di: ib- il.t au the same kind as those winen iKcaim' no, n; ; tile plagues o( Egypt." U ,:pp, ar that tiagrasshopper lays us eggs the lalti-r end of June, or the beg;'lining of July, whin tiny iii until April of the billowing year, and are then hatched out. il the s- i.smi is wei, in, eg, s do not hatch, 1u: il warm. thiD lh« multitude becomes a giagum This yen hail hem warm, hence the ie.hix. Those who ate acquainted with the habit-* of the iimct know w'ne’c to find the id posit ground, and lake care to plough it up, which buries the eggs ; then proceed to SOW .- light crop, and this saves the hatching;, young grus-hjpp, r nc r ding pi. on food. Tm jt-irs ;.?>■», whe-u plagues were threat, im ~ the i!n -nis,’. liaihig scorched the grass, Un- tiling;, w, u. starved, nod since the", v<> large numbeii have appear'd until 11 •' s y ;r, wht n I lay threaten to gobble upoviy green leaf.