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into light cloths, for summer wear, and afterwards linseys for 

 winter wear; and the worst of the cotton into bagging." We 

 consider these suggestions well worthy the consideration of the 

 cotton planters whose gins have been destroyed, whose capital 

 is limited, and who desire not only to build up their own 

 broken fortunes, but to bring the best and most lasting pros- 

 perity to the South. 



INSECTS' AND DISEASES. The cotton louse is the first enemy 

 of the young plants. Proper fertilizing and thorough culture 

 fire a preventive ; but, where the louse appears, dry ashes and 

 plaster should be dusted over the plants. It will destroy most 

 of the insects and be always beneficial to the plants. 



The Cut Worm should be treated to a mixture of ashes 

 ind lime in equal parts, and applied around the stem of the 

 plant. The Cotton Moth is the great enemy of the cotton 

 and should be fought with all conceivable weapons. Just at 

 the time the first balls open a gray moth may be seen in small 

 numbers flying about the field in the morning and early 

 evening. This moth, an inch or more in length, is of a rusty 

 gold color on the back, and a dull silvery white on the breast. 

 There are two black spots on the wings, and two little horns 

 projecting from the head. As we have said, there are but few 

 of them, but unless they and their eggs are immediately de- 

 stroyed an army of worms will soon destroy every green leaf 

 of the cotton plants. The following methods should all be 

 used without delay. Put the laborers into the field early every 

 morning for a week, with paddles, and as the moths fly up from 

 the leaves strike them down and kill them. Make a mixture 

 of molasses, vinegar, and cobalt, and expose it on plates elevated 

 in difi-erent parts of the field, one plate to the acre. Just at 

 dusk build bonfires in diflerent parts of your field, and many of 

 them, attracted by the blaze, will fall into it and perish. What 



