WHEAT MENANCED
INSECT PEST 2,0C0,C00 ACRES IN CANADA. United Press Association—By Ele 'trie Telegraph—Copyright.) WINNIPEG, June 22. Nearly two million acres of the Manitoba wheat, fields, extending over a wile swath 0 through Red River Valley, .and over q, hundred miles across the southern part of the province, ire threatened with destruction Jv swarms of grasshoppers. Government officials stated, to-day, that the movement lof large winged hoppers developed suddenly. It started from glassland .and the summer fallow into fields of fresh new gr.iin. Late seeded crops are suffering particularly. Farmer's are alarmed a'T- the more because the- poison bait supplies are exhausted.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1933, Page 5
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102WHEAT MENANCED Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1933, Page 5
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