APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 387 



I am happy to report that no species of worm or insect has ever proved injurious to 

 the cotton in this county. [J. D. Click, Iredell. 



Cotton- worm has never been in this locality. [M. McKay, Harnett. 



So far as I am able to learn, the cotton-worm has not made its appearance in this 

 county. [Thomas Long, Yadkin. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



As early as 1793 the worm is said to have swept over Carolina and Georgia, hut is 

 first recorded in this county in 1804 as prevailing generally. [James W. Grace, Colle- 

 ton. 



The first appearance of the cotton-worm in this county was about 1857. [P. S. Fel- 

 der, Orangeburgh. 



The worm first made its appearance in the State in 1800 ; in this locality in 1827. 

 It was twenty- five years before the worm was known after the introduction of tho 

 plant. [James C. Brown, Barnwell. 



TENNESSEE. 



The Alelia argillacea first made its appearance in the county in 1850. Had made 

 its appearance ten years earlier in older counties of the State. [A. W. Hunt, Perry. 



This county has never been materially damaged by the cotton-worm. [E. W. Cun- 

 ningham, Henderson. 



The worm has never injured the cotton in this State. [ J. McMillan, Decatur. 



Henry County is on the extreme northern boundary of the cotton-belt. We are not 

 troubled here with any insect or worm that injures the cotton-plant farther south. 

 Onr only trouble is the short season. [N. Y. Cavitt, Henry. 



Have never seen the cotton damaged by the worm but once, then only to a very 

 small extent. [L. Dodson, McMinn. 



TEXAS. 



From its earliest cultivation the oldest citizens do not remember. [Walter Barnes, 

 Cherokee. 



1834. A boat-load of cotton-seed was brought from New Orleans and planted, and 

 that year the worms made their first appearance and destroyed the crop. [P. S. Clarke, 

 Waller. 



In 1842 the cotton-worm came in force, more than any year previous. As the plant- 

 ing and cotton increased the worm increased also, coming to do its mischief about 

 every third year ; some years doing but little damage, others quite destructive. If 

 June was a rainy month we expected the worm, as a small miller or butterfly gener- 

 ally preceded it. [O. H. P. Garrett, Washington. 



1870 or 1871. [Samuel Davis, Hunt. 



1867 in the county. [R. Wipprecht, Comal. 



18(51 in this county, doing but little damage. [J. M. Glasco, Upshur. 



1847. [H. J. H. Brensing, Bowie. 



In 1859 was the first I knew of them in this State, but it is probable in the coast 

 counties they appeared much earlier. [P. S. Watts, Hardin. 



Cotton-worms first made their appearance in this county in 1846 ; can't tell as to 

 other parts of the State, but as this is an old-settled county suppose not earlier than 

 that date. [S. B. Tackaberry, Polk. 



The appearance of worms in large numbers noticed for the first time in 1871. [A. 

 Schroeter, Burnet. 



Cotton-worms have never been here but once (1869), and then onby in one field. 

 [John Speer, Blanco. 



In 1871 or 1872 the white cotton-moth, together with a large brownish butterfly, came 

 in swarms like grasshoppers from north 10 east, by the needle, traveling south 10 west, 

 for about two days. [A. Turpe, Maverick. 



The first appearance of the cotton-worm in Texas, according to the oldest inhabit- 

 ant, was in 1846. They again injured the crops in 1852 and 1862. Since 1864 they have 

 appeared every year, some years doing little or no damage. [W. T. Hill, Walker. 



About 1850 the worm was first noticed in this county, but did not appear sufficiently 

 numerous to destroy tho crops until several years later. [J. H. Krancher, Austin. 



They were first noticed here in 1849. [C. B. Richardson, Rusk. 



My recollection is that the cotton-worm did not appear in this section of Texas until 

 1844 ; then first on plantations near the Gulf coast, in Brazoria and Matagorda Coun- 

 ties. [A. Underwood, Brazoria. 



The first appearance of the cotton- worm in this county was in 1848 or 1849. [Stephen 

 Harbert, Colorado. 



If my memory serves me right, in 1857. [Natt. Holman, Fayette. 



The first moth or worm seen in this locality was in the summer of 1867. [J. W. 

 Jackson, Titus. 



