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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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1960: Be on the lookout for web worms. That was the message in the Portales News-Tribune.
“Look over your trees. More than likely you will find several colonies of web worms, and if they aren’t taken care of promptly, your trees will be most unsightly within a week or ten days,” reported Gordon Greaves in his By The Way column.
“There are several ways to fight the worms, all of them requiring climbing the trees and risking life and limb.”
The writer suggested fire or a high-pressure water hose, though most hoses would not reach the tops of the infested trees.
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