 | Grant Powers - 1841 - 256 sider
...resorted to by the inhabitants to protect their fields of corn, but all in vain. In the first place, they dug trenches around their fields, a foot and a half...cut a trench as before ; then took round and smooth sappling sticks, of six or eight inches diameter, and six or eight feet in length, sharpened them to... | |
 | Grant Powers - 1841 - 248 sider
...resorted to by the inhabitants to protect their fields of com, but all in vain. In the first place, they dug trenches around their fields, a foot and a half...cut a trench as before; then took round and smooth sappling sticks, of six or eight inches diameter, and six or eight feet in length, sharpened them -to... | |
 | Grant Powers - 1841 - 264 sider
...resorted to by the inhabitants to protect their fields of corn, but all in vain. In the first place, they dug trenches around their fields, a foot and a half...trench, and took possession of the interdicted food. NThe inhabitants then adopted another expedient to save those fields yet standing. They cut a trench... | |
 | 1854 - 588 sider
...hoping this might prove a defence; but the ditches were soon filled, and the millions that wera in their rear went over on the backs of their fellows in the...trench, and took possession of the interdicted food. About the first of September, the worm suddenly disappeared ; and where they terminated their earthly... | |
 | Silas McKeen - 1875 - 478 sider
...some foot and a half deep, hoping this might prove a defence ; but the worms soon filled the ditches, and the millions that were in the rear went over on the backs of their fellows in the trenches, and took possession of the interdicted food. Every expedient was resorted to by the inhabitants... | |
 | Grant Powers - 1880 - 252 sider
...inhabitants to protect their fields of corn, but all in vain. In the first place, they dug frenches around their fields, a foot and a half deep, hoping...save those fields yet standing. They cut a trench as 5* before ; then took round and smooth sapling sticks, of six or eight inches in diameter, and six... | |
 | 1914 - 626 sider
...dug in the fields in advance of the moving armies of worms, but the worms soon filled the ditches, and the millions that were in the rear went over on the backs of their fellows in the trenches and took possession of the interdicted food. Holes were sometimes made in the bottoms of these... | |
 | 1914 - 624 sider
...dug in the fields in advance of the moving armies of worms, but the worms soon filled the ditches, and the millions that were in the rear went over on the backs of their fellows in the trenches and took possession of the interdicted food. Holes wore sometimes made in the bottoms of these... | |
 | U.S. Department of Agriculture - 1914 - 626 sider
...dug in the fields in advance of the moving armies of worms, but the worms soon filled the ditches, and the millions that were in the rear went over on the backs of their fellows in the trenches and took possession of the interdicted food. Holes were sometimes made in the bottoms of these... | |
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... the outermost row ; but in ten days from the first appearing of the Northern Army, nothing remained of this corn but the bare stalks ! Every expedient was resorted to by the inhabitants to protect their fields of corn, but all in vain. In the first... 