Shots of government experts planning campaign against grasshoppers, instructing farmers. Shot of men handling barrels of molasses and arsenic at government warehouse, mixing ingredients including bran, arsenic molasses, lemons, water. Shot of old cars moving on road, farmers on their way to fight grasshooppers. Sequence on farmer spreading poisoned bait in field by hand, of man using end-gate seeder. Sequence on farmer looking for eggs on plants, on farmer spraying kerosene with hand pump.