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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1950
Page
11
Since biblical days locusts have tormented Middle East agriculture. Peasants tilling the Nile Delta under pharaohs faced invasions that stripped vegetation across fields and crops.
Warren Lee reports on Edward Tung Young-pao a former Nationalist airman who pivoted to farming in Hong Kong buying five acres and turning it into a chicken farm with about 10 900 meat birds in six months The story highlights how middle class residents adapt locally as refugees crowd the city and a CAP meeting offers cadets a path to free flying time at the airport
Swarms crossed the Red Sea into Ethiopia Somaliland French Equatorial Africa and Anglo Egyptian Sudan then moved along the Nile into Egypt. The invasion threatens Egypts agriculture as the country relies on long staple cotton for much of the world supply. A full scale anti locust campaign is underway.
Fourteen year old Billy McNeil of Strathmore won the Calgary Fish and Game Association crow and magpie destruction contest for the second year running. He turned in 1 515 pairs of birds feet and received a new bicycle plus 76.75 in cash bounties.
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