Hawke's Bay Times, PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY.
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1867. THE LOCUST PEST.
u Nulliits addldus jurare in verba m agist ri."
Quite a new feature in the history of the Colony is the wonderful increase of the locust tribes during the past year cr two, and we think altogether unaccountable. True it is that there has always been a large number of the locust family in these islands, hut until the last few years we had not heard of their committing havoc on the grass or pasture lands, and we were inclined to the belief that they subsisted on the ferns, and that agriculturists had little cr nothing to fear from them. Now, however, the case is quite differ ent. They have increased to an un usual extent, so much so that cloud? of them may he scon at times travelling through the atmosphere from one idistrict to another, darkening the air |f.»r Lcnrs together ; hill sides may he | seen covered with them, and glisteriing in the rays <-f the sun like us many shells ; pasture lands too, where I they have alighted, are devastated and 'found to he denuded of every blade of
grass ; and so numerous are they as! da y iisc in the faces of travellers that j horses will at times refuse to ffre Tam. "We have on a former occasion pointed out that domestic poultry, parlioula; ly turkeys, devour them greedily, and thrive well on this klud (if food—some hundreds of their careases being found together in a single ■crop, to the almost exclusion of other hinds of food. Tigs too, we are informed, devour a vast number of them, and are rapidly fattened thereby. These facts indicate the direction in
which we must work for a remedy for ike pest. Mere attention must be paid by our settlers to the raising of poultry, and turkeys more especially. This will at least do something towards checking the progress of the I cast plague, while it will turn it to a great extent into a source of profit instead of loss.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 477, 20 May 1867, Page 2
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348Hawke's Bay Times, PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. MONDAY, MAY 20, 1867. THE LOCUST PEST. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 477, 20 May 1867, Page 2
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