POISON OVER THE MALLEE.
Efforts to Save Pastures.
OUYEN, Monday. — Ever-increasing hordes of grasshoppers are threatening crops in the Mallee. The Department of Agriculture is sending more officers to Ouyen to-day to help the farmers to get the plague under control while it is still in the infant stage. The assistant entomologist (Mr. Ward) worked all day yesterday and to-day with Messrs. Clarke, Goodrem, Vines and Christie spreading poison bait. Although millions of grasshoppers have been killed millions continue to attack the pastures. They are now making inroads on Mr. W. Goodrem's wheat crop.
Arsenate of soda and bran in a dry form is being used as a poison. In some places the grasshoppers have passed over the poison, but more is being spread in front of their path. The pest has now appeared at Kiamal, Woornack, Boulka and Wymlet. Mr. W. J. Clarke, who lost nearly 1000 acres of pasture is the heaviest loser. He believes that only aeroplanes using poison-gas can arrest the destructive invaders.
GRASSHOPPERS IN THREE STATES. (1934, November 6).The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954), p. 3. Retrieved November 13, 2010, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10991732
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