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were ten weighing stations established, and the district funds were freely 

 drawn upon. According to a crop report published in June 1891 numbers of 

 voung locusts in the Hangu Tahsil of: Kohat were also destroyed by firing 

 the dwarf palms through which they were crawling, while in the Barak 

 ilaqua the destruction is noticed in the same report of some three thousand 

 maunds of young locusts. 



In Jhelum the destruction of eggs began early in March. From five 

 hundred to six hundred maunds of eggs, were destroyed in one tahsil. 

 At first one anna, and later half-an-anna, a sesr was paid for the eggs, 

 while gar andatta were distributed to the people engaged in destroying 

 the young locusts. Some R3,000 was noticed as spent from district funds 

 in the early part of the spring upon the destruction of eg^s and young 

 locusts. But the Deputy Commissioner states that the people were in- 

 clined to be apathetic, a*, from the dimensions of the plague, it seemed 

 hopeless to cope with it. 



In Shahpur the Naib-Tahsildar of Khushab was put in special charge 

 and large numbers of young locusts were destroyed, though little real im- 

 pression was made upon the pest. 



In Gujranwala in March many of the winged locusts were killed in 

 the mornings and evenings when they were inactive. Every patwari, 

 lambardar and policeman was made responsible for reporting at the tah- 

 sil whenever eggs were laid or young appeared. Land in which eggs 

 had been deposited, if not under crop, was ploughed three or four times 

 so as to expose them. Eggs also were collected in great numbers, the 

 usual plan being to make each house in a village furnish daily a " tind " 

 or well-pot full of eggs. 



In Sialkot bands of villagers were organised to kill the young locusts. 

 The methods adopted were, driving them into trenches arid burying them, 

 and surrounding them with a circle of men armed with branches, who 

 gradually drove them into straw, which was then burnt. 



An interesting account is given by Colonel Lance, the officer com- 

 manding at Ferozepur, of the methods adopted in fighting the yom g lo- 

 custs which invaded that cantonment in May 1891. Both British and 

 Native troops were employed in the work, and Colonel Lance writes: 



" Eajh corps and detachment was given certain limits within which it was to 

 ■w./ik and to do its hest to destroy any swarms that came within them ; corps, however, 

 woio employed at other pl-ices that were heavily threatened, as required. 



" With the exception of one heavy swarm that came on the 17th Bengal Cavalry 

 linen, the swarms came on the south-west corner of the station, and on the south- 

 east and north-east as far as the cemetery, near the Sudder Bazar. In the Commis- 

 sari<it-Transpoit lines they were in countless numbers, and for days it seemed as 

 if they would succeed in getting into the station from that direction". 



