Zululand has just completea this sea son's locu'st campaign, aud farmors tliere are pleased with the rcsuJts. In! the past few years millioiis of pounda have been lost through the ravages o± locusts^ and at one time it was thought that Natal's greatest agricultura] industry — sUgar — would be erippled. Systomatic work dn the destruction of "hoppers" (young locusts) and the baiting and poison-spraying of flying ewarms, has brought the pest under control. It" is claimed that tlie great bullc of hatchiugs this seasou has been dostroyed. The work of tlie locast "gangs" has been lieiped coii'slderttbly by tlie outbreak of fungus disease among tlie insecte. This disease has killcd couutless I mdllions of them.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 7
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