398 REPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



Worm winters, as they are to be seen here in warm seasons in winter (I mean the 

 fly) [J. C. Mat hews. Dale. 



The conclusion is th;it the preceding winter has very little to do with their propa- 

 gation. [Charles M. Howaid. Autauga. 



Mild. [A. D. Edwards, Macon. 



No difference. [James M. Harrington, Monroe. 



If the weather is dry from the 15th of July to the 15th of August, worms do but lit- 

 tle damage to cotton. [George \V. Thagard, Crenshaw. 



The summer and fall of 1865 were very dry; the caterpillar was destructive in 1866. 

 The summer and fall of 1866 were very wet ; the caterpillar was very destructive in 

 1867. The spring and early summer of 1869 were wet ; no caterpillars in 1870 ; not 

 many in 1671. The year 1871 wet; caterpillars eat up the crops by August 10, 1872. 

 The year 1872 a dry one; caterpillars early and very destructive in 1873. The year 

 1875 very dry ; caterpillars unequaled in 1876. [I. W. Dn Bose, Montgomery. 



Mild, warm winters preceding the crops indicate favorable season lor cotton so far 

 as the caterpillar is concerned, as the moth comes forth in warm days and many of them 

 perish for -want of food. [I. D. Driesbach, Baldwin. 



Wet summers followed by dry fall and mild winter. [P. D. Bowles, Conecuh. 



Mild winters, wet springs, and hot summers, though we have had one or two excep- 

 tions. [M. W. Hand, Greene. 



A wet May followed by July and August showery is the most favorable summer for 

 the worms. The winter has no effect on them. [Knos, Minge, and Evans, Hale. 



Dry summers and mild winters; 1872 was very dry and the winter following very 

 mild, and in 1873 there was the most destruction vre have had by the caterpillar. 

 [H. Hawkins, Barbour. 



My opinion is that the season following a cold winter we have less worms than we 

 do alter a mild winter. [R. B. Dunlap, Greene. 



We regard our severest cold winters as being the best preventive to their appear- 

 ance the next year in injurious numbers. I think the years when their ravages have 

 been great are those following a mild winter; but with little weather very cold, they 

 have been most certain to prevail the next year if the season in other respects is lavoi- 

 able to their increase, to wit, wet and cloudy. [Andrew Jay, Couecnh. 



More destructive alter a uniformly cold winter; I think they are sometimes destroyed 

 by freezing weather after two or three weeks of warm weather'in winter. [ J. R. Rogers. 

 Bullock. 



Summer dry and hot, winter mild and dry. [J. F. Culver, Bullock. 



The summers when the worm has been most abundant have been worm, and more 

 than the usual quantity of rain fell. The winters have been various. The worm hay 

 come both after mild wet winters, and cold dry winters. I am satisfied that the pre- 

 ceding winter lias nothing to do with the presence or absence of the worm the follow- 

 ing summer. [ J. N. Gilmore, Sumter. 



ARKANSAS. 



Mild weather and dry through fall and "winter. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 



Dry and mild. [Norborne Young, Columbia. 



The -winters have been very mild preceding the years they have been so destructive 

 and abundant ; in fact scarcely any winter at all, the ground not frozen two inches 

 deep during the winter, and- the summer belore also warm and dry. [T. S. Edwards, 

 Pope. 



FLORIDA. 



A mild winter, -which is generally a wet one. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



Very cold, damp weather, with but little sunshine. This for the most part has been 

 a veiy hot summer, and hence but lew worms. [William A. Harris, W T orih. 



Moderately wet and mild. [S. P. Odoni, Dooly. 



Waim summers and severe winters. [William Jones, Clarke. 



Wet summers are most favorable. [Timothy Fussell, Cotl'ee. 



The summer and winter were wet and mild; no very cold weather. [E. M. Thomp- 

 son, Jackson. 



Mild winters. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



LOUISIANA. 



I have noticed no difference; the winter of 1876-77 was as waim as we generally 

 have, and the worms stripped everything. Again, last winter, 1877-78, was very mild, 

 and the fields look as bare as in December. Now of the summer, we generally sutler 

 most during a wet summer. [II. B. Shaw, Concordia. 



During the past fourteen years, during which time the worms have been here in 

 numbers almost every year, we have had winters as severe as common in this latitude. 



