USE FOR LOCUSTS
PESTS FOR PROFIT, i It has been said that everything on this earth can. be pui, .to a profitable use though in. : numberless instances it needs the exercise of a vivid imagination to believe th e statement. Much interest, however, has ‘ recently been aroused ui .Tunisia by .inqdiries from French fertiliser manufacturers for dried locusts,\nd it appears a« if ; there, is a possibility of locusts figuring in the exports from; French North Africa, At the present time it. wsU.fchesq -.areas a areat amount of money t 0 destroy locusts, -and it will be a source of general sanction if tli e lpcus t plague can be turned into a mean* of profit. Local authorities in Tunisia have promised that, after the . next- local invasion they* wiUr.be able to .guarantee,delivery r.f large. quantities • ofdried - i,-.cust ; s.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 8
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138USE FOR LOCUSTS Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 8
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