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Show Army Worms Play Havoc in Middle West BlIHUNGTON, ILL. Thousands of dollars' worth of crops have hren destroyed in the Middle Mid-dle West following the worst army norm outbreak In many years. I'f.T farmers would believe these pes' appear In armies large enough to vi;ie out a ten-to-twenty-acre field of knee-high corn In a day or two, and grcsse railroad tracks and high-wuvs high-wuvs enough to cause wheels on loco-: loco-: mot I v g and automobiles to slip. "I didn't believe In army worms until un-til II. is thing happened," said IMchard I). WcMcmann, after the worms bad de.il r.ijcd 50 or 60 acres of corn, tim-olh.v, tim-olh.v, tiluegrass, wheat, oats, and rye on It's rented farm, causing a loss of $500 n dny for three or four days In sure rs'nn. "I had seen a few worms worViv; around In my fields before, but I never believed the stories I hard uliout their marching Into fields by t lie millions aa they have done out theiv in my field." Men In the dairying section near riitin'n admit they were skeptical abort the army worm yarns they had h"ii;d. until their cows began to full short Hcvenil cans of milk a dny. Win m they Investigated they found ari'i.v worms had marched Into their pastures and cleaned up all the blue-grass. blue-grass. The damage was so severe that the cattle would not go out into the pastures to graze and the dairymen dairy-men were forced to open their silo to get succulent feed for their cows. The Itlordan boys on J. K. Rlordan'i farm near Wheaton, III., say they did not take the army worm seriously at first. They spent most of their time trying to keep weeds down in their 120 acres of corn, and suddenly discovered dis-covered that worms bad sprung up all over a 25 acre field of fine timothy about sis worms to every spear of grass, and so thick that they plied up three Inches deep In troughs formed between the fenders and hood of an automobile driven across the Infested field. Farmers know now that timothy fields are favorite feeding grounds for the worms. On a week's tour of the Infested area of Illinois, timothy, rye, or loose straw scattered over the fields in the spring, were found In almost every case where the army worms appeared. ap-peared. As a result many have put timothy on the black list and plan to grow Instead clovers, alfalfa and other oth-er legume crops not relished by worms. , |