Fifty Miles of Locusts
H. J. FLEMMING
LOCUST plagues were common in ancient times, and have also worried English and French agriculturists during the summer just past. How South Africa met and conquered this plague is told in the London Daily Mail by Mr. Flemming:
“It is a clear, bright sunny day in the Orange Free State. Good rains have fallen the pasture is knee-deep, green and luxuriant; thousands of acres of wheat and oats up to one’s waist extend on all sides.
“To the man on the land the man who has toiled for this crop it means much. Hundreds of pounds possibly a trip to Britain for a holiday.