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Its numbers are increasing so rapidly and its destruction is so great that it is becom- 

 ing a terror to the cotton planters in this locality. If you know anything of this worm, 

 and can find out some means of destroying it, you will have the gratitude of the cot- 

 ton planters in this county, and probably throughout the cotton-belt. [ J. W. Jackson, 

 Titus County, Texas. 



The boll-worm (Heliothis) has done more damage this year than the Noctua xylina. 

 The crop in this county is cut off at least one-third. A field of 00 acres planted by my 

 brother-in-law, that, with no casualty, would have made 45 bales, will barely make 

 15, while some fields are entirely untouched. * * * In the field mentioned above 

 we found many stalks from 6 to 7 feet in height without a single boll. [Walter 

 Barnes, Cherokee County, Texas. 



The boll- worm ( Heliothis) has done more injury to the cotton plant here than any 

 other insect this year. Some years they do a great deal of damage. It is said by some 

 farmers that 50 per cent, of the crop is lost on account of the boll-worm. [J. M. 

 Glasco, Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas. 



The boll- worm is sometimes more injurious than the army worm. Though not so 

 numerous nor so regular in its visitations, it is far more formidable in its ravages than 

 the leaf-worm, since there is no way of saturating the cotton bolls with poison to 

 destroy them. [W. J. Jones, Virginia Point, Galveston County, Texas. 



THE BOLL-WORM. From every quarter we hear complaints of the ravages of these 

 pests, which in a given series of years, no doubt do more injury to the cotton than even ihe 

 dreaded caterpillar. They are unusually destructive at this time, both in the hills and 

 bottom lands. * * * \y e hear very little complaint of the cotton-worm in this neigh- 

 borhood. [Louisiana Sugar Bowl, September 13, 1879, from the Shreveport Times of 

 July 22. 



The boll-worm visited the crops here early in July (during which month we had 

 repeated rains), and has continued its ravages up to the present period. The opinion 

 of the the planters, as well as my own, is that it has done more damage this year than 

 the Anomis will do, though many fields are now stripped of their leaves by the latter. 

 I regard the crop as damaged at least one-third. [E. H. Anderson, M. D., Kirkwoodf 

 Miss. 



The boll-worm, I doubt not, has destroyed more cotton in Alabama than the Aletia ar- 

 )illacea.[D. Lee, Mount Willing, Lowndes County, Ala. 



I would mention the boll- worm, which bores into the boll and destroys each lobe 

 pierced, and many think that the boll-worm is more destructive on an average than the 

 caterpillar, for the reason that it attacks the cotton, more or less, every year. I have 

 counted frequently as many on some stalks as 20 fine bolls destroyed by boll-worms. 

 In 1847 there was no caterpillar ; but the boll-worm, from written memoranda furnished 

 me by Hon. A. C. Mitchell, of Glenville, Ala., nearly destroyed the crop, being as de- 

 structive as the caterpillar the present year. [H. Hawkins, Hawkinsville, Ala. 



A good many planters in this locality dread it as much as they do the caterpillar. [Knox, 

 Menge and Evans, Faunsdale, Ala. 



It has been my opinion that the damage caused by the boll-worm is as heavy as any 

 caused by the caterpillars. [H. C. Brown, Camden, Ala. 



I believe the boll- worm has done a great deal more damage in the aggregate than the 

 cotton-worm. [C. C. Howard, Autagaville. 



The boll-worm does us, upon the whole, more damage than the col ton- worm. [A. J. 

 Cheves, Montezuma, Ga. 



A brief review of tbe Entomological Record, prepared by Mr. Town- 

 end Glover during the eleven years, 1866-1876, for the Monthly Keports 

 of this department, shows plainly that the damage done by the boll- 

 worm during that space of time was not greatly inferior to that done by 

 the cotton-worm. In that case, however, there is difficulty in estima- 

 ting them comparatively, from the fact that both were indiscriminately 



