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Fight Locusts with Milk, Soothsayers Say (Reuters)







Fight Locusts with Milk, Soothsayers Say
(Reuters)

Fight Locusts with Milk, Soothsayers Say
(Reuters)
08/27/2004 01:59 PM

Reuters - Senegal's farmers must give boiled cereal mixed with curdled milk to the poor and bury blessed plant roots in the ground to avoid their crops being ravaged by locusts, traditional clairvoyants say.




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