Show drouth hits Fish worms price booms to lc each des moines the price of corn is ii going up and so is ia the price ot of flah worms its it the drouth john keener explained its so dry in iowa and the rest ot of the midwest that the worms are digging deeper and deeper into the ground so deep in fact they dont even comeux corn up at night keener operates a bait house on the banks of the des moines river and supplies fishermen fishe with fish worms if i just common ordinary fishermen or with minnows dough balls flies etc if they are anglers he gets his worms from a farm near des moines but where that farm is situated is one of his trade secrets we have to dig at least five feet down tor for em now he moaned and besides we have to use a team and plow to break the hard baked crust of dirt keener said he had heard that in minnesota conditions were even worse with worms selling two dozen tor for a quarter he sells ten or twelve dozen for that amount he h says |