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the cottoii-plant of its leaves, attacked tbe bolls, eating tbe smaller ones 

 and killing the larger ones by gnawing around them. In Peiiry the 

 crop was cat 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, were quite considerable. Persistent 

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

 urablv successful in several counties. Eeports of injuries were received 

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

 Smith, xittala, Lauderdale, Wayne, Hinds, Madison, ]S"eshoba, and Yal- 

 abusha. In some of these counties the damages were slight ; in others 

 entire fields were denuded of leaves. 



In Louisiana the cotton-caterpillars, after several ominous demon- 

 strations in July, appeared in force in several counties during August. 

 They nearly "finished" the crop in Tangipahoa, and reduced that of 

 Marion to '^a half average. In Concordia many fields were entirely 

 stripped of foliage. Severe injuries were inflicted in Red River and 

 Saint Landry, while insects in formidable numbers were reported in 

 Cameron, Carroll, Union, Rapides, Avoyelles, Baton Rouge, and Caddo. 

 In Baton Rouge they were very annoying to peach and grape growers. 

 In Orleans County truck-farmers suffered from the ravages of the large 

 black grasshopper, {RonuiUa micropteray) Fig. 7. 



In Texas serious damages to the cotton crop are reported in Austin, 

 Gonzales, Atascosa, Matagorda, Milam, and Blanco Counties by cotton- 

 caterpillars, gTasshoppers, and an undescribed insect. In Gonzales 

 County grasshoppers also inflicted great injury upon bottom crops of 

 corn. 



The cotton-caterpillar and the boll-worm completed their summer's 

 work by a very efl'ective demonstration during September. Kortk Car- 

 olina, judging from previous reports, had enjoyed almost entire immu- 

 nity from this scourge during the summer, but during September it was 

 felt seriously in several parts of the State. Reports of insect depreda- 

 tions have been received from Tyrrel, Wake, Craven, Edgecombe, and 

 Sampson Counties. In Dooly County, Georgia, the caterpillars ap- 

 peared early in the month, and entirely swept the top crop. They 

 reduced the yield one-half in Calhoun County, and were very mischiev- 

 ous in Muscogee, Lee, Sumter, Worth, Columbia, Heard, Marion, Schley, 

 Wilkinson, Chattahoochee, Upson, Liberty, Whitfield, Clay, and 

 Decatur Counties. In several cases their depredations exceeded any- 

 thing of the kind previously known, involving the destruction of leaves 

 and bolls entire. In other cases their injuries resulted in the reduction 

 of the yield by a very fonnidable percentage. Caterpillars and boll- 

 worms also figure prominently in the Florida County reports. Serious 

 depredations were committed in Liberty, Jackson, Suwannee, Orange, 

 Gadsden, Jeiferson, Alachua, Clay, Columbia, and Levy Counties. In Al- 

 abama, the same blighting influence was felt in Saint Clair, Hale, But- 

 ler, Clarke, Lee, Montgomery, Colbert, Blount, Calhoun, Blacon, Cham- 

 bers, Pike, Autauga, Perry, and Limestone Counties. In some cases, 

 as in Pike County, the brunt of the disaster fell upon the lowland cot- 

 ton. The mischief appears to have been even still more serious in sev- 

 eral counties of Mississippi. In Jasper everything about the cotton- 

 plant that a worm could eat was stripped. Complaints are very earnest 

 of these depredations in Rankin, Warren, Grenada, Amite, Wayne, Yal- 

 abusha, Lauderdale, Washington, W^ilkiuson, Winston, Jefferson, 

 Hinds, and Kemper Counties. In several of these counties very little 

 cotton matured si£ter August 1. Louisiana sends reports of insect dam- 



