PLAGUE OF MICE
HUGE WHEAT FIELDS MENACED HIGHWAYS CARPETED WITH PEST. NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Huenavista Lake, comprising R> square miles in Kern country, was drained and transformed into a vast wheat field. Reapers a year ago reaped a tremendous harvest. A number of house mice invaded the field late in the autumn, _ the surrounding grassland becoming alive with the rodents. When thousands of sheep were turned on tin’s land the mice moved towards higher ground, and hordes invaded the wheat- fields and nearby towns. The highways were, carpeted with the pests, which swarmed" in homes and barns, destroying foodstuffs, clothing and crops. Dr Raymond Hall, of the University of California, a zoologist, declared that the scourge was unbelievable. ~ . Farmers trying to save their crops are ploughing furrows around the fields and filling them with poisonous grain, butt- despite this the mice are forging ahead. —A.N.IA.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10311, 21 January 1927, Page 5
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146PLAGUE OF MICE Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10311, 21 January 1927, Page 5
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