How to stop the swarms question that cannot be answered. There probably is not any really reliable method, otherwise certain countries would' not be periodically plagued. People light fires and attempt with flame and smoke to divert the columns, but billions survive where a few millions perish.
Jocust's one use is whea he is people then eat him who would have eaten them out of their crops. Indeed, even i ordinary times, the Chinese se tually searching "in the fields for locusts: they do not appear to be regarded as a luxury, but more seasonable article of diet.
The present is a particularly bad time for the Shanghai neighbour ood to be, visited by plague Nocusts, for the crops are just coming on and they will be absolutely ruined if the locusts get at them now. Experienced observers are somewhat pessimistic, for they declare that the younger insects first appear in spasmodic clouds, and that afte: them comes the deluge of the adults.
Pootung on July 21,"after thi was visited by swarms ut 1 which came from a north-iterly direction. 'Though they hi not yet had time to cause serious damage to the crops, the farmers are greatly scared.' The harvests, it may be mentioned, are expected' to be very good. "The authorities of Greater Shanghai and local schools and colleges are doing their best to assist, but how.is ever the problem, Hordes of locusts also swarmed trite Paoshan on Saturday and ate up vast quantities of green stuff They are still at it.
Locusts frequently visit this district during the Great Heat but not in the quantity now seen.
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