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has made several persons using it giddy when advantage was not taken 
of the wind. Turkeys and chickens have been killed from eating the 
dead worms.” It is deemed a decided advantage in Putnam, Ga., that 
it kills the noxious weed known as beggar’s lice. There are reports from 
Crenshaw, Ala., of ‘a few cases of injury to human beings and to stock 
and some destruction of birds eating dead worms,” but no particulars 
are given; and a similar report from Carroll, “one or two cows killed 
from eating the cotton.” One correspondent expresses the opinion that 
it will prevent the pasturing of cotton-fields after the picking is over. 
The Craven (N. C.) correspondent says: ‘No inconvenience from pois- 
oning where the right proportions are used. The caterpillar or flock 
bird feed upon these worms in the same fields where the poison is strewn, 
and grow very fat. Sportsmen kill these birds and thousands eat them, 
yet have not heard of any one being injured.” 
4, Means of destruction—Most of the returns fail to indicate the use 
of any other than arsenical compounds for the destruction of cotton- 
insects. Several declare definitely that no others have been tried. Of 
those which are reported the following extracts will give an idea: 
Jones, N. C—Fires or torches are of no service. Carbolie soap has been tried and 
believed to be good. It is used in the proportion of one gallon of soap to ten of water. 
Beaufort, N. C.—Ravages stopped in one field by a flock of turkeys. 
Granville, N. C.—Turkeys saved the crop. 
Worth, Ga.—Ceasing to cultivate cotton for a year or two, and resting the lands, is 
the remedy. 
Sumter, Ga.—Fires and lamps are worthless. 
Jackson, Fla.—Tin lanterns of peculiar construction, also torches, have been used 
with success. 
Gadsden, Fla.—Turkeys highly recommended. Kerosene-oil and turpentine in small 
quantities in water have been used with some good effect. 
Orange, Fla.—Birds are encouraged, and we find it pays. 
Butler, Ala.—Torches and fires, with little or no success. 
Carroll, Ala.—Fires used with no effect. 
Jones, Miss.—Fires will retard the progress of the caterpillar. 
Noxubee, Miss.—Fires and torches in some instances seem to have done good. The 
best remedy is early and clean cultivation. 
Madison, Miss.—Fires and lamps used with only partial success. 
Clark, Miss.—Fires, torches, and small lamps used with only partial success. Would 
be more useful if practiced by every planter in a neighborhood, as it attracts the moths 
from neighboring farms. 
Warren, Miss.—Early in July last sheet-iron pans, 18 by 15 inches by 2 inches deep‘ 
containing cval-tar to the depth of 1 inch—and about 4 inches above the center of each 
pan of tar a lantern was secured—were placed on stakes something higher than the 
cotton-plant, set about 100 feet apart in the field, and light being placed in the lanterns 
at night mapy millers or moths were destroyed, but without perceptible relief. Earlier 
commencement and a more general effort in a similar direction may accomplish some- 
thing in future. No poisons were tried. 
Bossier, La—Running a sweep-plow through the rows does more good than anything 
else. It rakes the worms off the cotton and covers them up. 
Comal, Tex.—Large lamps set in pans of molasses used extensively through the 
county. One lamp to one hundred yards square, lighted at early dusk. Moths were 
collected with very favorable results. 
Lavaca, Tex.—Night lights have been nsed. Unless universally adopted by all farm- 
ers not much benefit derived, as the light attracts from adjacent fields. Fields where: 
lights were used have been known to be first destroyed. 
CONCLSUIONS.—From the answers fo the various questions above 
quoted, the following is a summary of the conclusions: 
The use of Paris green, when pure and unadulterated, mixed with 
flour in the proportion of 1 part of Paris green to 25 to 30 parts of flour, 
is of utility, and in many cases has saved the crops; that in many in- 
stances where the Paris green has failed it has been attributed to im- 
proper use or using a spurious article. Paris green or arsenic, also used 
with water and sprinkled over the plants, has been used with good effect, 
