LOCUSTS INFEST SPERRY'S FARM

LOCUSTS INFEST SPERRY'S FARM

The seventeen-year locusts have now infested the farin of John Sperry, who lives about a mile south of the city on the gravel road. The number of the locusts that have swarmed the place Mr. Sperry believes is more than a million. They have covered most of the young trees on the place, doing considerable damage. A peculiar feature about them is that after alighting on the leaves and eating ravenously they burst open and die. They are not of the migratory species, Mr. Sperry says, but are of the kind that suddenly come into existence after being dormant for many years.