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delayed 2\ hours on their account ; while in Toba almost all the 

 barley crops were destroyed, and the owners in despair of saving 

 their crops let their cattle, goats and sheep loose into their fields 

 as they preferred to see their crops eaten by them rather than 

 by locusts. 



Now that the judicious use of arsenic as a means of destroying 

 locusts has been proved beyond doubt by actual experiments in the 

 Victoria County, Natal (see Indian Museum Notes, Vol. IV, No. 3, 

 pp. 137 — 139) to be a remedy of very great value, and assuredly 

 superior to any other measures hitherto adopted as regard 

 effectiveness and cheapness, it is to be hoped that this method 

 may be tried in India. 



The following are the reports that have been forwarded to the 

 Museum regarding the flights : — 



[a) From the Baluchistan Agency — 



Extract from the Baluchistan Agency Diary for the week ending 31st 

 May 1897: — 



" Dense swarms of young crawling locusts have come to Chaman from the 

 Registan. About 400 men of the 29th Bombay Infantry, Railway gangs and 

 other people are engaged with great vigour, in destroying them. 



" Lieutenant Webb Ware also reports that Nushki is swarming with these 

 young locusts, and similar reports have been received from parts of Pishin." 



Extract from the Baluchistan Agency Diary for the week endmg 8th June 

 1897:- 



" Zhob. — Locusts have made their appearance in large numbers in the Lower 

 Zhob sub-division. Numbers of young locusts have been hatched and great ap- 

 prehensions are felt for the kkarif crops. 



" Chaman. — Young crawling locusts have also appeared in aense swarms in 

 Chaman and destroyed the garden crops and vegetables in spite of the efforts 

 made by the men of the Infantry regiment, the railway gangs, Levies and 

 Police, to keep them out." 



Extract from the Diary of the Baluchistan Agency for the week ending 30th 

 June 1897 : — 



" Locusts are said to have greatly decreased in Chaman, but reports from Toba 

 state that myriads of young locusts are all over the country and have done very 

 great damage to the crops. They are reported to be in such swarms that the 

 train from Quetta to Chaman was delayed 2| hours on this account on the 



I2th." 



Extract from the Baluchistan Agency Diary for the week ending Sih July 



I 897 ••- 



" Zhob. — Locusts still infest almost every part of the district, and, at places in 

 the Hindubagh and Fort Sandeman tahsils, have done a considerable amount of 

 damage to vegetables and trees. It will probably be necessary to suspend or 

 remit some of the revenue demand in parts of Pishin and Toba. owing to the 

 damage done." 



