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Show WORMS 11 HILL.lllD. Stripping Whole Ai-re. of Fruit Troon Uuun to skeletons. The orchards in Wilhird have passed through a terrible ordeal "at the hands" of the greedy caterpillars. cater-pillars. A IU'ui.kh reporter passed through the town last week. At first sight it looked as though whole acres of great apple, peach, plum and cherry trees were leadens, dry and dead. But on closer inspection in-spection one could detect life not only in the skeleton of the whole tree, but in the skeletons of the twigs, out to the skeletons of the thousands of leaves. Of the leaves 1 only their thread-like (rami? work j was left, making the trees at a distance look as dead as a door nail. There is not a square inch of green foliage left upon great trees that were wont to shadow the greater part of a quarter of an acre. Entire orchards in Wilhird covering acres are in this same sad plight. The fruit for this year is not only literally destroyed, but it is ft ared many of the trees are so sorely stricken that they will die. So far, some of the orchards have not been visited by the pest, but the worms are fast moving to greener fields and the worst is feared, as the people seem wholly powerless to cope with the millions of raven 0U8 worms that now swarm the town. |