Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — A NEW POTATO PEST. [ARTICLE]

A NEW POTATO PEST.

Mr. R. M. Moore, Who is staying here this summer with his sister, Mrs. Joseph Yeoman, showed us a parasite Which is working to some extent on his late potatoes. It is a brown worm about inches in length that bores into hie stalk just above the ground and eats the heart out of the vine, working towards the top, and the vine soon dies. ML Mioore lias grown potatoes for upwards of fifty years, but says he never saw or heard of such a destroyer before. Whether it is some new parasite that is just getting a start this year, and next year will do great damage, is a question.