APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 395 



the wind is from east-southeast. There must be, in my opinion, both moistnre in the 

 atmosphere and on the foliage, or much sap in the foliage to preserve the lips of the 

 freshly-hatched caterpillar from the heat of the sun.. [ J. W. DuBose, Montgomery. 



Wet. [Kuox, Minge, and Evans, Hale. 



Warm and cloudy weather is more favorable to the increase of the caterpillar than 

 hot and dry, for the reason that in warm, cloudy, or rainy days the cotton-fly is busy 

 flying either hunting mates or laying eggs. In dry or hot days they are seen only 

 late iu the evening or very early in the morning. It is generally believed that they 

 do not move about much at night little or none after 9 p. m. Hot sun is necessary 

 for hatching the eggs. After the hatchiug, neither the hot sun nor dry weather can. 

 check or prevent their maturity and rapid development. [H. Hawkins, Barbonr. 



If June is wet or there is much rain the caterpillar is looked for with certainty. 

 [Andrew Jay, Conecuh. 



They increase most rapidly in warm, damp, cloudy weather. [R. B. Dunlap, 

 Greene. 



Warm, seasonable, growing weather. [C. C. Howard, Autanga. 



When the weather is warm and showery, calculated to promote a luxuriant and ten- 

 der growth of the cotton-weed, there seems to be more worms generated, or, at least, 

 they eat the cotton-plant foliage in a shorter time. [John D. Johnston, Sumter. 



Eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, '71, '73, '74, '76, were known as wet seasons in the 

 cauebrake of Marengo during the spring anl early summer. In 1872 it did not rain 

 on my crop from April 9 until May 27, yet the caterpillar appeared June 16. The season 

 (summer) was at no time excessively wet. In 1874 it did not rain from July until 

 September 14, yet meanwhile the caterpillar came in great numbers. In 1876, the 

 spring and entire summer were unprecedentedly wet, yet on my crop the caterpillar 

 did not appear until August 1, or thereabout. [J. W. Da Bose, Montgomery. 



The past year they made their appearance in June and continued to increase by pe- 

 riods until about the 15th or 20th of August, when they slowly ate the crop ; but they 

 did it so slowly as to do but slight damage, notwithstanding it was a remarkably wet 

 and hot summer. [R. W. Russell, Lowndes. 



Rather inclined to think they increase more rapidly in damp weather. [ J. F. Smith, 

 J. F. Calhoun, Dallas. 



Warm cloudy weather is decidedly more favorable to its increase, particularly warm 

 nights. [J. N. Gilmore, Suinter. 



ARKANSAS. 



Warm springs, with a great deal of south wind, some rains, though not heavy, with 

 a constant increase of heat as the summer advances. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 

 Warm and wet. [Norborne Young, Columbia. 

 Damp or wet and hot seasons. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 



FLORIDA. 



Wet seasons seem to be most favorable to its increase. [John B. Carrin, Taylor. 



Damp cloudy weather is most suitable to their increase. Hot dry weather 'is very 

 depressing to them, and they are unfavorably affected in proportion as they are ex- 

 posed to heat. [ J. M. McGehee, Santa Rosa. 



Wet. [John Bradford, Leon. 



The general impression here among farmers ia that a wet season is favorable to the 

 development of the insect. I do not entertain this view, but believe that excessive 

 rain has a tendency to retard their development. The rains the present year have 

 been excessive, and though the worm has eaten many fields of cotton, the destruction 

 has not been general, but has been retarded, making it quite late in the season before 

 the destruction was complete. [F. M. Meekin. Alachua. 



Showery weather in June and July, after a mild winter. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



Cloudy, damp, or wet weather is most favorable to its increase. [Timothy Fussell, 

 Cottee. 



Rainy weather. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. . 



Wet seasonable years seem to be the most favorable. [E. M. Thompson, Jackson. 



Wet and damp weather. [William A. Harris, Worth. 



Warm seasonable weather during July and August, when there is rain and damp 

 every three or four days. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



Warm and moderately dry. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



Seasonable rains which keep the foliage of the cotton green and tender is the kind 

 of weather most favorable to its increase. The egg is always deposited on the top and 

 teuderest leaves of the cotton, or cotton upon which the leaves are hard and tough. 

 [S. P. Odom, Dooly. 



LOUISIANA. 



Showery weather during the months of August and September. [H. B. Shaw, Con- 

 cordia. 



