People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — Timothy Fields Being Ravaged. [ARTICLE]

Timothy Fields Being Ravaged.

Dubuque, la., July 19.—Very alarming reports come in from all parts of northern lowa regarding the ravages of the new worm in the timothy fields. It made its first appearance ten days ago, and is spreading in enormous numbers. Many fields are already destroyed. The worm is nearly an inch long, and about an eighth of an inch in diameter. It destroys only the head of the stalk, eating the seed.