The new international encyclopaedia . Crooked Creek rail-roads (Map: Iowa. D 2). It has the KendallYoung Lilirary with about 4000 volumes, theJacob Funk Hospital, and a handsome court-house. The city is the commercial centre of aregion engaged in farming and dairying andliaving stone quarries and deposits of coal. Thereare shops of the Crooked Creek Railroad, andmanufactories of canned goods, rugs, cigars,bricks and tiles, brooms, iron products, stockfood, and felt shoes. The government is vestedin a mayor, chosen biennially, and a unicameralcouncil. The water-works and the electric lightplant
The new international encyclopaedia . Crooked Creek rail-roads (Map: Iowa. D 2). It has the KendallYoung Lilirary with about 4000 volumes, theJacob Funk Hospital, and a handsome court-house. The city is the commercial centre of aregion engaged in farming and dairying andliaving stone quarries and deposits of coal. Thereare shops of the Crooked Creek Railroad, andmanufactories of canned goods, rugs, cigars,bricks and tiles, brooms, iron products, stockfood, and felt shoes. The government is vestedin a mayor, chosen biennially, and a unicameralcouncil. The water-works and the electric lightplant are oivned and opeiated by the municipal-itv. Webster Citv was settled in 1857. Popula-tion, in ISIiO. 2829: in 1900, 4613. WEBWORM {ireh. AS. iveh, OHG. tceppi,loappi, dialectic Ger. UVftft, Ger. Gewehe, web,from AS. wefan. OHG. ireban, Ger. weben, toweave; connected with Gk. C^os, hyphos, web,Skt. firnavahhi, wool-spinner, spider + trorm).Any one of several lepidopterous larvae whichspin webs, and either live gregariously in large. WEB OF F.\ WEBWORM. With one of the suspended caterpillars. colonies or occupy single webs. The commonestof the webworms is the fall webworm, the larvaof Ihiphantria textor. The adult is a rathersmall, pure white moth, sometimes spotted withVol. XX.—26. black. It lays its eggs in clusters of four tolive hundred upon the leaves of many kinds oftrees. The caterpillars on hatching live together,each colony spinning a web which grows with thegrowth of the larva, and which may eventuallyinclude all the leaves of a good-sized pon reaching full growth the larvte leave theweb and crawl down the trunk to spin theircocoons. There are two generations each year,and the hibernates in the pupal condi-tion. When numerous it is abundantly parasi-tized, many ichneumon flies and chalcis flies lay-ing their eggs in the growing caterpillars. Hurii-ing the welis at nightfall or in dark weather,when the caterpillars are close together, is oftenpract
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