L Harnessing the Eartbworn, Thomas Barrerr, 1959, $2.95 from, Wedgewood Press Box 68, Back Bay Annex Boston, MA 02117 My favorite earthworm book. Very visionary and very well written. This man was talking about saving the planet through the action of earthworms in the 1940s. Also an excellent chapter, "My Grandfather's Worm Farm," about how worms were used in 19th century Ohio. This technique can and will work now. Earthworms for Ecologt and Profit, Vol. I and II, R.E. Gaddie, Sr. and Donald Douglas, $4.95 each from' Bookworm Publishing Co. l2O7 S. Palmetto Ontario, CA9l761 Vol. I is a gtezt book and very necessary for anyone interested in real production of worms. Vol. II hasn't been released yet but is going to be about using earthworms for land restorarion, large scale waste management and farming. Profitable Eartbworm Farrning, $2.50 frorn, Charlie Morgan Box 116 Bushnell, FL 33513 Charlie is one of the classic entrepreneur/worm rancher/ writers. Write to him for all kinds of interesting free information. Raising Earthworms for Profit,Earl B. Shields, $2.50 from, Shields Publications Box 472-C Elgin, IL 60120 Earl is another old timer who really knows how to raisc worms and write about them. Oaer 300 Questions and Answers on Raising Worms, from, Hugh Carter Carter Worm Farm Dept. 6 Plains, GA Hugh is Jimmy's cousin and has one of the largest ranches. I'll bet they feed them peanut shells! Sensible Questions and Answers about tbe Earthuorm Business, $1.25, and Eartbudrm Harztester Plans and Instructions, $3.28,fromt Eco-Enterprises Rt. 6, Box 755 Sequim, WA 95382 "The harvester can pick and pack up to 2O0,0OO worms in 1 day and 1 man operating it. No hard work either." Aprll I977 RAIN Page 5 The Biology .of Eartbworms, C.A. Edwards and J.R. Lofty, 1972, $8.95,fuomt Halsted Press 605 Third Ave. New York, NY 10016. The Cballenge of Earthworm Research, Robert Rodale, 196t, Rodale Press. Out of print-look for it in the library. "Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm . . worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation which would proceed but lamely without them." -Gilbert While of Sclbourne, 1770 Earthworm Eating Ronald Gaddie doesn'r squirm a bit when he hears the adage "You are what you eat." Gaddie eats worms-lots of them. In fact, he's made a business of it. - "Try'em, you'll like them," he said in a telephone inrerview froin Centralia, Wash., where he's teaching claises at pacific Northwest Bait and Ecology. Gaddie is president of North American Bait Farms, Inc., Ontario, Calif. For the second straight year, the company is sponsoring a nationwide worm recipe contest. Last year's winncr was Earthworm Applesauce Surprise Cake. Worms "taste like shredded whear," said Gaddie. "l like them best in oatmeal cookies, but I've eaten them with rice, sprinkled on top of salads rather than bacon bits, with scrambled eggs and with sreak and gravy." Besides their nutritional value , Gaddie says worms are an important asset in fighting pollution. "They are the only animal I know of that you take the third worst pollution problem in the world, solid waste, and feed it to them," he said. Gaddie says eating earthworms is strictly a case of "minfl over matter. " "People in this country are reluctanr to rry them, but people in other countries, especially in Asia, eat them." Gaddie, who has written a two-volume set of books called "Earthworms for Ecology and Profit," says the annual sales of his company will be almost $1 million this year. Ihe firm distributes worms and related products. -From Sztnday Oregonian, March 2O,1977
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