People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — The Worm in the Chestnut. [ARTICLE]

The Worm in the Chestnut.

A Pittsburgh physician explains haw the worm gets into the chestnut. When the nut is still green an insect comes along and, hunting a warm place in which to have its eggs hatched, lights upon the green chestnut and stings it. At the same time it deposit* some of its eggs in the opening thui made. The chestnut begins to ripen and at the same time the eggs are hatching. The insect selects chestnuts as a place for depositing its eggs as being thg best adapted place by instinct. The floury matter in the nut turns to sugar and sugar contains'carbon, which produces heat. —N. Y. Tribune.