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Example sentences for "wormy"

Lexicographically close words:
worming; wormlike; worms; wormseed; wormwood; worn; worne; wornout; wornt; worrd
  1. I pick my apples by hand from a step-ladder, and sort into two classes--sound, wormy and windfalls.

  2. I let calves and small pigs have access to the orchard, as they will eat up a great many wormy apples that drop, and help keep down the weeds.

  3. After the apples grew large enough, if wormy they fell, and the hogs ate the apples and the worms also.

  4. I thin the fruit while on the trees by picking off the wormy and defective ones.

  5. To make cider or vinegar from rotten and wormy apples ought to be considered a crime.

  6. I do not pasture my orchard much, but when I do it is with hogs, and I think it advisable when the fruit is wormy and falling off.

  7. It is not advisable, as they injure the trees, but they pick up the wormy fruit.

  8. Hogs may not like green apples, but there is something specially delectable to a hog in a green, wormy plum.

  9. There were fewer wormy apples than usual.

  10. Pastures with cows after gathering; says they eat the culls and wormy fruit, and it pays.

  11. I pasture my orchard with hogs, and think it advisable, as they eat all the wormy fruit and destroy many insects by rooting; I find it pays.

  12. I spray a little before the buds swell, after the blossoms fall, and two weeks later, with Bordeaux mixture, to prevent wormy apples.

  13. I pasture my orchard with pigs until the ripe fruit begins to fall; I think it advisable and that it pays, as the pigs eat all the wormy and worthless fruit that falls.

  14. Mr Pecksniff, shaking his head in pity; 'you are much mistaken; my wormy relatives, you are much deceived!

  15. Every year, that we have a good apple crop, there are thousands of bushels of wormy apples which are practically worthless.

  16. Are any of the windfalls in the orchard wormy and if so what proportion?

  17. Where spraying is carefully done, are there as many wormy apples?

  18. In addition to the many luxuries with which our palates had been regaled during the voyage, we had for several weeks past been feasting on wormy bread--not myself, but my fellow-passengers.

  19. One of them, finding no escape from the wormy hard-bread, strove to make a little sport out of it, by declaring that these living vermin had imparted to the bread a peculiar lively flavor, which was very palatable.

  20. Find out, if possible, the dates on which, and the conditions under which, the spraying of the orchards with the least number of wormy apples was done.

  21. Ask the pupils to bring to the school-room a number of wormy apples.

  22. Compare the percentage of wormy apples in unsprayed, with that in sprayed, orchards.

  23. The cocoon and pupa phase of this insect may be obtained by keeping the wormy apples in a box containing loose paper on which the cocoons will be placed, or by searching under the bark scales of apple trees in October.

  24. Place the beaker over a heater and observe the coloured portion rise.

  25. In some cases plants thus removed may be re-set to fill vacant places.

  26. Ghosts do not go prowling around groceries stealing wormy figs.

  27. A former method of fighting this pest was as follows: bands of burlap four inches wide tied around the tree furnished a hiding-place for larvæ that came from windfalls or crawled from wormy apples on the tree.

  28. Others remain on the tree and become the common wormy apples so familiar to growers.

  29. If good wheat can be grown by modern methods, and wormy apples prevented by spraying, why shouldn't trout be caught in grandpa's old brook?

  30. They seem to have just accepted the lack of trout as one other piece of bad luck, like wormy apples, blighted wheat, and other dispensations of Providence.

  31. The plan of feeding wormy ears to pigs offers the double advantage of destroying the enclosed pests, while at the same time fattening the pigs.

  32. The best remedy at the North is to feed all wormy ears to pigs; and to plow the corn land in autumn, when the insects are in the pupa or chrysalis state.

  33. Those fruits that are attacked whilst very young ordinarily fall from the tree, but those attacked when they are half or more grown, may adhere to the tree, but remain wormy and gummy at the picking time.

  34. The codlin-moth lays the eggs that produce the pinkish caterpillar which causes a large proportion of wormy apples and pears.

  35. The two girls cutting wormy apples at the door were the youngest, and the only ones that were left to her.

  36. And, as he kiss'd Her wormy lips, he felt that he was blest!

  37. Come, you are not at all fit to go back into church, and I am not anxious to hear the tail-end of that wormy discourse.

  38. And so they lay Jack down in the wormy grave.

  39. Towards three in the afternoon a half pint of soup, composed of wormy beans, was issued and, though the hogs of the keeper usually tasted it first, we relished it and were glad to get it.

  40. As the matured nuts dropped from the treated trees, daily collections were made, and one-third of each collection was used as a sample in determining the percentage of wormy nuts.

  41. The matured nuts that fell from count trees were collected daily, and one-third of each lot collected was used as a sample for determining the percentage of wormy nuts.

  42. I have never found one wormy Weschcke hickory nut although sometimes you find empty nuts.

  43. Larvae Emerging from Sample Reduction Nuts Small Large Wormy of DDT (per Application in Chestnut Chestnut Nuts Injured 100 gal.

  44. Hogs also destroy many insects by eating the wormy fruit.

  45. This is not only an apple, but it is a wormy apple.

  46. It is stunted, like wormy apples quite universally are.

  47. Have also a knife with which, at the proper time, to open the wormy apple.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wormy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.