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Ch. 15: The Mining Towns

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THE MINING TOWNS
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and sent to hospitals and charitable institutions. Some fruit is sold in the compounds to natives at a price hardly reaching the cost of production. At times apricots have been sold at a shil­ling a hundred from the trees, and for sixpence when they were picked off the ground. In favorable seasons trees and vines are very prolific.
The difficulties met with in raising fruit are frost in the early part of the season, when the trees are blossoming, and hail-storms
in the beginning of the year, when the fruit is young. Locusts come in millions and at times devastate the whole orchard, leav­ing the fruit exposed to the sun and at times badly eaten. There are two kinds of these locusts : one comes and stays for a day or so, doing what damage it can for the time being; the other one alights on the trees for permanent occupation. They first ap­pear in the early spring as small insects. The little dark-brown, wingless creatures are commonly known as voetgangers (walkers), and come out of the ground when they are hatched, hopping along in countless myriads. The locusts plant their eggs in the
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