The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-19
ARMY WORM
NEARS WAYNE
COUNTY LINE
Crop Pest Appears on Henry
County Farms Three Miles
from Border West of Dublin

The army worm invasion is within
three miles of the Wayne county line,
according to reports received Thurs
day afternoon from farmers west of
Dublin.
Wilson Gilbert, living northwest of
that town. in Henry county. reported
that the worm plague had reached his
farm. 1t has also appeared on the
farm Of Warner Macy. Other farm
ers in the neighborhood, who found in
vasions of worms in their crops Thurs
day, were relieved when they found
that the worm was entirely different
from what is called the army worm.
and was not doing any appreciable
damage.
Gilbert said during the afternoon
that the worm was not in great num-
bers on his farm. He is taking prompt
repressive measures and hopes that
the plague will not spread beyond the
borders of the field in which it ap-
peared. He said they are in small
numbers on many farms.
The nearest approach of the worm
previous to this report was on farms
between Newcastle and Ashland, about
ufO lilies lTOIIl IQ0 llu6.
None Near HaserstoWn.
Farmers living west and north of
Hagerstown, near the line said Thurs
day morning that they had seen moth
ing to indicate that the worm had
come into this county However, ac-
cording to dispatches from Newcastle,
the spread of the worm is sporadic,
and 1t may appear in any community
without being carried from another
place, being hatched out in the ground.
FARMERS ORGANIZE EFFORTS
| NEWCASTLE, Ind, June 49,. AT a
mass meeting of farmers of the coun-
| ty in the court house Wednesday, an
organized method was devised to fight
the army worm, the township to be
the unit in the fght. A crowd of 200
farmers attended the meeting and it
was decided that an organized effort
| The progress of the destruction
reached the point today where it
ceased to be a township affair, but be-
came countrywide. The system to be
| followed is for the officers of the town
| ship farmers organizations to take
| charge and direct the work.
of practically every known method
of determination, the spread of the
worm in Henry county went on
4 Wednesday apparently unabated. The
worm is now prevalent in six town
ships-Henry, Prairie, Stony Creek,
Fall Greek, Blue River and Spiceland
and every farm between the city of
Newcastle and the Omer Johnson
farm in Prairie township is now af.
fected
Prairie township is almost one con
tinuous net work of trenches. There
is hardly a field in the township that
does not have a ditch around it and
into these bitches have been placed
poisons. Yet, the worm continues tc
thrive and they apparently are being
hatched out faster than they are be
ing killed Off
1t was estimated that over 1,00(
farmers were out digging trenches
Wednesday, a crowd of over 400 farm
ers being at work near Mooreland.
Crest Reached Soon.
The crest of the destruction in Hen
ry county will be reached within four
or five days, in the opinion of W. G.
Larrimore of the department of agri
No1tOl WIZ do0ICoSCO tAC AdSS ASSC
ing of farmers in the court room. He
said that if the worms are not now ir
the wheat and timothy, they will not
be, that the worms eat in the mature
stage and gradually turn dunn color
that they come from eggs or larvae
and in the adult form will take the
shape of moth and cease to hold the
cut worm form; that the moth will
appear later in the season; that tbs
worms are now in the last stage anc
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