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where corn is grown for table use, long familiarity with its ravages 

 having made the planter indifferent to the really large aggregate^ 

 damage which it inflicts, and no doubt it is much more destructive 



Fig. 13.— Boll-worm eating into boll from outside, as commonly # found 



in cotton fields in late summer and fall. Natural size. 



(After Quaintance, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



to cotton than most of our growers realize. The following extracts 

 from letters concerning this insect indicate, however, that it was 



seriously destructive in 1907 : 



Mt. Olive, N. C, September 8, 1907. 

 I was in my cotton crop to-day and found that some kind of insect was 

 creating great destruction. I send you sample. 



Respectfully yours, Calvin Brock. 



Clinton, N. C, September 9, 1907. 

 I send to-day cotton bolls ruined by worms— some of the worms are in the 

 bolls. My cotton is very much hurt by them, in some places as much as 10 or 



15 per cent, or probably more. Yours truly, 



S. H. Hobbs. 



Warsaw, N. C, September 19, 1907. 

 I send some cotton bolls and a worm that is destroying my cotton. One can 

 find thousands of them in my field, as many as forty on one stalk. 



Yours, etc., 



R. P. Raiford. 



