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‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’ [231r] (461/900)
The record is made up of 1 file (448 folios). It was created in 31 Aug 1942-18 May 1943. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Fields under crop within the breeding ground should be trenched around
by the occupiers of the fields under proper supervision.
For the small hoppers which come out of the eggs a very deep or very
wide trench is not necessary. If, however, it is expected that the numbers
of hoppers will be so great that a small trench will not contain them, dig
deep pits at intervals along the trench into which the hoppers can fall or
be swept.
Method 2(a).—Ring trenches —Plain
If the soil is suitable dig a trench at least one foot wide and eighteen
inches deep all round the breeding ground before the young hoppers have
emerged from the eggs. The trench walls should be vertical or under-cut,
and the walls must be free from projections or rough surfaces unless other
means are employed to prevent the hoppers from climbing up and escaping.
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Ring Trenches—Reinforced
Method 2(b).—(i) With oil-cloth
Strips of shiny American oil-cloth six inches in width nailed along the
top six inches of the outer wall of the trench effectively prevent any hoppers
from escaping. The oil-cloth strip requires to be carefully affixed by nails
near the top and bottom edges and to be applied to the outside wall of the
trench, so that the top of the strip of oil-cloth is as near to the ground level
as is convenient. It is advisable to cut the wall of the trench as straight
as possible in order that the oil-cloth strip can be easily affixed and so that
there are no gaps between it and the earth of the wall through which the
young locusts could escape.
Method 2(b).—(ii) With metal sheets
Sheets of smooth metal, e.g. sides of kerosene-oil tins, one foot in width
laid so as to overhang the outer edge of the trench similarly prevent the
escaping of hoppers.
Method 2(c).—Ring-fencing
When the soil does not allow effective trench-digging, the hoppers may
be kept inside the breeding ground by ring-fencing. 1 he ring-fencing may
consist of oil-cloth strips or metal sheets.
If pits can be dug along the ring-fence, these should be prepared, so
that hoppers moving along the inside of the fence will fall into them. If
the ground is not suitable for the digging of pits, the young hoppers may
either be left to starve or may be destroyed by methods detailed under
* Destruction of Hoppers
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Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to efforts, undertaken by representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit (MEALU), to control desert locusts (first reported in western India in August 1942 (f 3)) along the Arab coast between Bahrain and Oman. The principal correspondents include: the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); the Chief Locust Officer (Reginald Charles Maxwell-Darling) and Locust Officer (Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald) of MEALU, who arrived in Bahrain to carry out their work in October 1942; the Defence Officer for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel H T Hewitt); representatives of the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC); and representatives of the Bahrain shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company.
The file includes:
- reports from Maxwell-Darling and Vesey-Fitzgerald, as well as from numerous other British officials from across the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region, including the British Minister at Tehran, Sir Reader William Bullard, on locust observations. The observations include estimations of the size of swarms, movement and direction of insects, age and colour of animals;
- correspondence relating to arrangements for the shipment of locust poison bait from the Sudan Government in Khartoum, to Bahrain;
- correspondence relating to the arrangements of facilities for the MEALU team on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , chiefly arrangements for suitable vehicles (arranged with the assistance of CASOC and the Defence Officer for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ), experienced drivers and motor mechanics, finances, and rations;
- papers issued by MEALU, including instructions on reporting locust swarms (ff 136-137), and notes on locust campaigns in sparsely inhabited countries (ff 194-195, ff 385-386);
- a copy of a booklet entitled Methods of Locust Control , produced by the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research and published by the Government of India Press, Calcutta [Kolkota], 1941 (ff 226-236);
- a reprint of an academic journal article entitled Some results of studies of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca Gregaria, Forsk.) in India , by Rao Bahadur Y Ramchandra Rao (ff 266-278). The article is a reprint from the Bulletin of Entomological Research , volume 33, part 3, published December 1942;
- some papers relating to anti-locust activities in southern Iran.
The file contains a single letter in Arabic, a letter to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. from the Ruler of Qatar, Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī (f 334).
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- 1 file (448 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 424-449) mirror the chronological arrangement.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 450; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-423; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1544
- Title
- ‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’
- Pages
- 226r:236v
- Author
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research
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