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in July, the injuries being more severe on fresh bottom-lands. In Mont- 
gomery the pest appeared fifteen days earlier than last year. Severe 
injuries were experienced in Russell, Marengo, Macon, Dallas, Conecuh, 
Choctaw, Hale, Barbour, Henry, Clarke, Pike, Butler, Perry, and Au- 
tauga; the infliction was lighter in Crenshaw, Chambers, Wilcox, Cof- 
fee, Jefferson, and Green. In Franklin the caterpillar has never been 
known. In many localities Paris green and other poisons were used 
with variant success, but many had too little faith in their efficacy and 
too much apprehension of accidents to use them properly. In such 
cases the insects were only checked and not destroyed. In Perry and 
Dallas Counties poisons were used with satisfactory results when judi- 
ciously applied at an early period after the appearance of the worms. 
In Mississippi caterpillars were noticed about the last week of July, 
though in Warren County they put in an appearance on the 6th. They . 
lightly affected Newton, Rankin, and Wiikinson Counties, but were more 
numerous and destructive in Warren, Marion, Lowndes, Kemper, Clark, 
Washington, and Noxubee. Paris green and arsenic were in great de- 
mand in Marion, but their efficacy had not been decisively tested. ; 
Caterpillars were reported in several parishes of Louisiana: Avoyelles, 
Cameron, East and West Feliciana, Tensas, Rapides, Madison, Frank- 
lin, Concordia, Carroll, Caddo, Bossier, Richland, Iberia, Union, and 
Tangipahoa. The most serious injuries were felt in Avoyelles, Caddo, 
Rapides, and Tangipahoa. In Avoyelles Paris green was extensively 
used, and its efficacy was awaited with special interest. 
These worms were comparatively innoxious in several counties of 
Texas: Collin, Wood, Washington, Walker, Victoria, Uvalde, Matagorda, 
Fayette, De Witt, Burnet, Rush, and Blanco. They were more severe 
in Leon, Lavaca, Austin, Grimes, Liberty, Smith, Fort Bend, and Mont- 
gomery. In the last-named county half the crop was saved by the en- 
ergetic use of poisons. Several specific preparations of Paris green 
were reported as successful in different counties. In Liberty County 
the worms were quite destructive upon red land, but seemed to avoid 
the crops on gray land. 
In Union, Hempstead, Dorsey, Columbia, Drew, and Clark Counties, 
Arkansas, these worms were not very formidable, but they made their 
mischievous power felt in Polk and Ashley. A new cotton insect ap- 
peared in Jackson County, Georgia, boring into the forms and causing 
them to drop. Per contra, in Jackson County, Florida, an enemy to the 
caterpillar was observed in some unknowninsect, which largely destroyed 
it. 
Cotton-lice (Aphides) were more numerous than ever in Chowan 
County, North Carolina, and were quite troublesome in Camden, Pas- 
quotank, and Perquimans. 
Grass army-worms (Leucania unipuncta) swept the grass-crops of Ed- 
wards County, Illinois. 
Horn-worms (Macrosila Carolina) injured tobacco-crops in Halifax 
County, Virginia. 
Apple-worms (Carpocapsa pomonella) injured fruit very seriously in 
Lunenburg County, Virginia; in Cass County, Missouri; in Benton 
County, Iowa; in Jackson County, Kansas; and in Salt Lake Count, 
Utah. 
Fruit caterpillars (Clisiocampa sp.) injured fruit and forest trees in 
Haywood and Fayette Counties, Tennessee. 
Curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar ) injured apples and peaches in Mon- 
roe County, West Virginia. 
