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the recent cold wave and the unhappy outlook for peaches, apples and cherries, there came one ray of hope in wishful-thinldng.
“I wonder if the beetle grubs were near enough out to get frozen,” said one hopeful.
Nobody seems to know, dear friend, “but it was a happy thought. Perhaps all the Japanese beetles have frozen. It's nice to think that some good has come from the killing cold.
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After the kindly suggestion that perhaps the beetles are all dead, it is unkind to remind that this is 17-year locust season.
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Some spft May night soon millions of crayfishlike cicadanymphs—the '‘17-year locusts”—will begin to crawr stealthily out of the soil.
Twenty thousand or more may climb from beneath a single tree,
(See WALRUS, page 9)
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