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Early birds, anglers and farmers had bad news last week. Lumbricus terrestris -better known as the earthworm-is in serious trouble. U.S. Soil Conservationists Henry Hopp and Paul J. Linder have warned in Science magazine that the earthworm population in some sections of the U.S. is dipping alarmingly...
Usually well-informed sources close to the Committee indicated last night that the Mole's supporters all over the country have been putting pressure on Chester Gould, creator of "Dick Tracy" to destroy his hero "like an earthworm" and make the Mole the central figure of his comic strip...
...Charles Darwin wrote: "Without the work of this humble creature, who knows nothing of the benefits he confers upon mankind, agriculture, as we know it, would be very difficult, if not wholly impossible." The great evolutionist was referring to the lowly earthworm...
...young Texas physician and surgeon named George Sheffield Oliver read Darwin's book on earthworms. A descendant of the James Oliver who invented the steel plow, George Oliver was living on a five-acre plot, and he decided to try earthworm culture on his grounds. Soon earthworms were such a big part of his life that he gave up his medical practice for them. Today Dr. Oliver is the author of a three-volume treatise on earthworms, a subject on which he is acknowledged by many to be the world's No. 1 authority. His story was told...
Oliver is the only man who has successfully crossbred any of the 1,100 species of earthworms. For feeding chickens, frogs, etc., he produced a meaty hybrid ten inches long. Another hybrid, short and thick, yields a colorless, odorless, volatile oil useful in medicine. A medium-sized hybrid, very tough and vigorous, can be used to recolonize soils whose worm populations have been killed off by strong fertilizers or poison sprays. Oliver calls it his "soilution worm." In California and elsewhere there are several hundred farmers who have planted great batches of eggs, raised earthworm armies in their soil. Some...