PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS.
COLUMN FIVE MILES LONG AND EIGHTEEN MILES WIDE. ALL GREEN STUFF EATEN UP. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPt RIGHT.] (Received May 27, 11.3 op.m.) NEW' YORK, May 27. A remarkable plague of grasshoppers is reported from New Mexico, where a column of insects five miles wide and eighteen miles long swept over the country. Stock are starving and there is an utter lack of green food. Government experts have been despatched.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3943, 28 May 1913, Page 5
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72PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3943, 28 May 1913, Page 5
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