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Worms in Tobacco

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 46.

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Worms in Tobacco

Mr. Comb, a North Carolina tobacco grower, says the most tedious and repulsive part of the work is “worming”—picking off the ugly-looking green worms—and children and turkeys do it. “But,” he adds, “a large amount of tobacco is not picked clean, and during the year an habitual chewer will eat several hundred worms that are pressed in the tobacco.” You can take 'em if you chews.—The Morning.