Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/18/1903.
    A Dutch traveler, Kurt Dinter, who has just returned from southern Africa, says that one day, while in camp in Hottentot land, he heard a rushing sound as if rain were falling in torrents. Not far away it seemed to him as if a cloud had actually begun to fall upon the earth. The cloud turned out to be locusts. The planters and cattle raisers soon appeared with their men and gathered them in bags. They smoked the insects to kill them, and then dried them in the sun, after which they were fed to the dogs, chickens, pigs, goats and cattle. The traveler found that oxen and horses are especially fond of locusts, and get fat and strong during the locust season, as do the natives, who also gorge themselves.
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