The Cricket War at Stratford
Farmers in Stratford scramble to maintain ditches as a massive migration of crickets threatens to devour wheat fields.
“The six miles of ditches cut are full and the pests are going over them into the wheat fields.”
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Farmers in Stratford scramble to maintain ditches as a massive migration of crickets threatens to devour wheat fields.
“The six miles of ditches cut are full and the pests are going over them into the wheat fields.”
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