AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]
PLAGUE OF MICE
(Received this day at 11.0 a.in.) NEW YORK, Jim. 10.
Huenavista. Lake, comprising ten square miles, in Kern country, "as drained and transformed into a vast wheat field. Reapers reported a tremendous number of house mice invaded the Tield in the late autumn, and found the surrounding grassland alive with rodents. When thousands of sheep were turned on this, the mice moved toivarrls liiglier ground. Hordes invaded the wheatficld and nearby towns. The highway was carpeted with the pests which swarmed homes and hams, destroying foodstuffs, clothing and crops. Dr Raymond Hall (University of California Zoologist) declared the scourge .was unbelievable. Farmers trying to stive their crops were ploughing furrows around the fields, which were filled with poisonous grain, but despite this, the mice forged ahead.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1927, Page 3
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136AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1927, Page 3
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