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Almanack Reader* responded to the wooly worm controversy with these comments:
Joseph S. Fishback, Madison, Wisconsin, says that the fuzzy caterpillar’s prophecies can be translated this way: “Notice the dark part on him and that will be the hardest part of the winter. Sometimes it will be on the front, this means the first part of the winter will be the hardest. Sometimes the dark will be on the tail, this means the last of the winter will be the hardest. Sometimes the dark will be in the middle, this means the middle will be the hardest.” Wayne L. Schroyer, Middletown, Md.. has a simpler means of finding the answer to the meaning of the little creatures. "Seeing black caterpillars in the fall means there is going to be a hard winter.” Another interpretation came from Mrs. George Baysinger, Rochester, Pa., "My idea of a hard winter is when you see many wooly worms in the fall with mostly black instead of brown on their back.” Effie P. Haines, Shanks, W. Va., had pretty much the same explanation of the message of the caterpillars.
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