The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-02-01

they seemed to settle until the storm
passed over.
Swar1ns Cover Fields.
'"The locust swarm began covering
the fields preparatory to laying eggs.
Once the alarming extent to whicn
these eggs were laid was realized,
the authorities issued a proclama-
ton, requiring each male person froIl
16 to 60 years to gather eleven
pounds of the eggs. 1t is estimated
by competent authorities that as
many as $1,000 to $4,000 locust eggs
are concentrated in Il square meter
Of soil, and allowing for a loss OF
thirty per cent in Matching, some co.
600 d%estroyers can emerge from a
space thirty-nine inches square.
"Locusts are not, however, without
their own enemies provided by ma
ture. Large locks Of stOrks flew over
Jerusalem during the early days
when the adults arrived and after
the larvae were Matched, consuming
abnormal quantities, for which rea-
son the natives have always given
'Abo Saad' (the stork) a warm vel
come. Furthermore, in many of the
underground cells in which the fe'
male locust deposits her eggs were
| found eggs laid by certain species Of
. flies. the young worm or larvae OF
which, when hatched, lives upon the
locust eggs sucking them yry, till de
veloped into the chrysalis and emerg
ing a fur-fledged fly. Wild birds ant
domestic fowls developed a ravenou:
appctite for locusts, while with tht
smaller larvae and pupae turkey:
and chickens simply gorged them
selves with the result that the yolF
of their eggs became a deep red col
or.
Countless Multitude.
1.-THE eggs of the locust once
Matched the little fellows seem tC
hold together for Il few days, till
little developed and in sufficient num-
bcrs. when they would start theil
forward march of from 400 to coo
feet per day. clearing the ground oil
anv vegetation before them. 1t was
observed that these new broods in
stinctiyclv went in the reverse di
rcction to that from which their NY
ing parents come. None but those
who have seen them a begin to i'm
agine their countless multitudes and
the destruction which they cause
No wonder, then, that the writer oil
the book Of Judges liltens the Midi
antics. who had for years devastated
Israel's land, to locusts, and to this
sand which is upon the sea shore fol
multitude
1.-THE locusts, when advanced into
the second or pupa stage, walk like
ordinary insects, leaping only when
frightened into n quicker pace, which
they readily accomplish by the use
of their two long and powerful pos
terror legs. However, while still in
the first or larvae stage. they seem to
hon much like heas. sc that when
ANYTHING neared their thickened
masses 1t seemed as If the entire sur
face OF the ground moved, producing
a most curious effect upon ones Wis
ion and causing dizziness, which in
some was so severe as to produce a
sensation not unlike seasickness. The
same was also true when watching
them undisturbed on tree or field.
Return TO City.
"The younger locusts returned to
Jerusalem, and for three or four days
an incessant and amending stream
filed the road from side to side, like
numberless troops marching on pa
rade. In in spite of the traffic at
this junction, which to this city Is
like lower Broadway to New York,
their ranks, although thinned. enter
ed the ancient gateway and the New
Breach, The moat around Dayid's