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Worm Raisins In Tennessee

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Day
11
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wallace Wright, a barber of Jellico, Tenn., has gone into the bait worm raising business. Jellico is a good fishing spot, but as it gets awfully hot in the summer, and dry, grub worms are scarce and correspondingly high. The other day Wallie struck a plan to have lots of worms at fishiug time and also raise a little money. He had a box made, filled it with good, rich dirt and sowed it in worms. Every night he waters hls stock. Monday last he looked at his pasture, and lo! all the dirt had disappeared and in its place the bo was a live, crawling niass of worma They were sold at 25 to 50 cents a pin and over $300 was realized. Wright i now going into the business of worm raising for a profession.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register