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iug tlie success tliey liave met with in applying remedies for the des- 

 truction of the cotton- worm or tly, and the boll worm, or if any means 

 whatever liavc been used in their neighborhood to destroy them, and 

 what they recommend. 



Insect injuries. — In a few localities in Ithode Island and Connecti- 

 cut our August returns present injuries to oats, sod-corn, and grass 

 crops by the army-worm, [Leucania miiirancta,) and the white grub^ 

 (larva of Lacknosterna,) with the occasional presence, in the fruit, of 

 the canker-worm, {Ankoptcryx vcrnata.) In King's County, New York, 

 complaints were made of the cabbage-worm, (probably Fieris rapcc.) 

 Cut-worms (a species of Afirotis) injured the corn crop in Armstrong 

 and Lycoming counties, Pennsylvania. From Middlesex County, Vir 

 giuia, come reports of the bud-worm, (a local designation not recognized.) 

 In Slecklenburg County some annoyance was created by the chinch-bug. 

 [Microims [Wiyparocliromus) leucoptcrns.] 



Extensive injuries to cotton by insects are reported in nearly all the 

 cotton States. North Carolina, however, has been nearly CKempt from this 

 infliction, but a single mention of " insects in cotton " coming up from 

 Pasquotank county. The August crops of Eichlaud county. South Car- 

 olina, were generally swept by the cotton caterpillar or cotton army- 

 worm, {Anomis xylinw.) In Georgia the ravages of this insect are re- 

 ported in Lee, Marion, Glynn, Stewart, Clay, Glasscock, Calhoun, Schley, 

 and Baldwin counties. In some places the destruction was complete. 

 In Schley County fields were entirely denuded within forty-eight hours 

 after the appearance of the enemy. In Glasscock and Marion the boll- 

 worm, {Heliotlds armigera,) added its destructive influence. In some lo- 

 calities the grass caterpillar or grass army-worm, {Frodenia autmnnalis,) 

 devoured the corn, grass, and pea crops. 



In Suwannee County, Florida, cotton caterpillars appeared July 15, and 

 within a month entirely swept many fields. In Leon they appeared Au- 

 gust 18, and within a week the last cotton leaf had disappeared. The 

 same report comes from Taylor county. In Jefferson the third brood 

 was in process of incubation. Similar complaints come from Gadsden, 

 Marion, and West Florida generally. The grass caterpillars were nu- 

 merous and active in Columbia and Manatee. 



Our August returns from Alabama foreshadowed an extensive visit- 

 ation of the cotton caterpillar, which, as our September reports show, 

 was fully and painfully realized. In some places thgs boll- worm vied 

 with the cotton-worm in its destructive influence. Eeports of either or 

 both of these pests come from Macon, Clarke, Pike, Marengo, Conecuh, 

 Perry, Montgomery, Crenshaw, Eussell, Fisk, Calhoun, Chambers, But-, 

 ler, Autauga, Dallas, Wilcox, and Tuscaloosa Counties. In Crenshaw 

 entire fields were denuded of foliage. In Calhoun the crop prospect was 

 reduced 25 per cent, in five days. In Autauga the roads, woods, and 

 wells were full of army and boll worms. In Wilcox the caterpillars, 

 after stripping the cotton plant of its leaves attacked the bolls, eating 

 the smaller ones and killing the larger ones by gnawing around them. 

 In Perry the crop was cut down to half an average after August 20. In 

 Fisk the boll- worm was also destructive in corn-fields. 



In Mississippi the injuries reported by our correspondents, though 

 less extensive than in Alabama, wore quite considerable. Persistent 

 efforts for the destruction of cotton insects appear to have been meas- 

 urably successful in several counties. Eeports of injuries come from 

 Pike, Jasper, Newton, Clarke, La Fayette, Wilkinson, Warren, Smith, 

 Attal-),, Lauderdale, \Vayne, Hinds, Madison, Neshoba, and Yalabusha. 



