APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 409 



August. [Samuel Davis, Hunt. 



In June, July, and August. [ J. H. Krancher, Austin. 



In August. [W. T. Hill, Walker. 



The first crops of worms appear in August, and eat the leaves and web up ; and come 

 out again in September, and eat leaves and young boll. [C. B. Richardson, Rusk. 



July and August ; sometimes they do not destroy the cotton verdure until Septem- 

 ber, as was the case this year. Then the crop is not so greatly injured ; in fact, is but 

 little damaged by them. [A. Underwood, Brazoria. 



The greatest injury done by them is in the months of July and August. [S. Har- 

 bert, Colorado. 



July, August, and September if the cotton has been late in planting. [Natt. Holman,. 

 Fayette. 



In the month of July in this locality. [J. W. Jackson, Titus. 



QUESTION 3. Give, as correctly as you can, estimates of the loss to the crop in your county 

 and State during notable cotton-ivorm years. 



ALABAMA. 



Where cotton has been planted late and on low wet lands the loss during this sea- 

 son (1878) was in many instances estimated as one-third of the fruit then on the plant, 

 while on cotton that was planted earlier and on dry land the loss was not estimated 

 at more than one-tenth. [R. F. Henry, Pickens. 



Loss in Bullock about 5,000 bales ; loss in State about 75,000 bales. [I. F. Culver, 

 Bullock. 



In 1873 in what is known as the " black belt," from the wet and worms together the 

 crop was almost a complete failure. I would say that, perhaps, had there been no 

 worms our crops would have been more than three times what they were. Other 

 years the damage is not so great ; perhaps 25 per cent. [R. W. Russell, Lowndes. 



Generally from 25 to 50 per cent. [H. Tutwiler, Hale. 



In 1867-'68 the loss in this section was one-fourth ; in 1869 little injury was done ; 

 in 1870, none ; in 1871, one-fourth ; in 1872, one-third ; in 1873, two-thirds of the crop. 

 I do not think since 1873 that exceeding 15 or 20 per cent, damage has been done to 

 any crop. If the season of growth is favorable to the development of a large weed, 

 I think that if the worms do not destroy the foliage before the last of September they 

 favor the opening of the cotton-bolls, and in this become means of direct benefit. 

 [R. S. Williams, Montgomery. 



About one-third of the crop, in 1872-'73. [Dr. John Peurifoy, Montgomery. 



In 1872 and '73, crop cut short one-half ; other years from one-fourth to one- third. 

 [Knox, Minge & Evans, Hale. 



They injure the cotton from one-fourth to one-third. [ J. C. Matthews, Dale. 



When the season is all right for an average crop or yield, and the caterpillar strips 

 the fields in September, the loss must be 20 per cent., if not more. As to the aggre- 

 gate loss I could not undertake to say, in this county and State. [Andrew Jay, Con- 

 ecuh. 



It is very difficult to estimate with any accuracy the amount of loss by the cater- 

 pillar in our State, or even the county, as the loss is never uniform. Some localities 

 suffer much worse than others ; some plantations are eaten out a week before others 

 in the same neighborhood. In 1873, I am satisfied I lost one-half of my crop ; in 

 1868, one-sixth ; in 1874, one-sixth ; in 1878, one-fifth ; other years, less. Would say 

 for this county, in worst years, loss $50,000 ; in the State, 500,000. [H. Hawkins, 

 Barbour. 



In county from one to three fourths of the crop. [ J. D. Driesbach, Baldwin. 



I have no statistics of losses. My general impression, however, is that in the aggre- 

 gate they have not been very considerable. [C. C. Howard, Autauga. 



Cannot say for the State. In this county and section from one-fourth to one-half. 

 Last year they destroyed the crop about the 20th of September. As it was late the 

 damage was small. This year they destroyed the crop the last of August, and the 

 damage was great not less than one-fourth and probably more. The year 1875 was 

 dry ; the worms came late, I thiuk in October, and not enough of them to make much, 

 if any, impression. [H. A. Stolen werck, Perry. 



I cannot even approximate the losses by the worm, but they are immense. No esti- 

 mates yet made and published exceed the damage we suffer from them. [C. M. How- 

 ard, Autauga. 



From one-third to one-half on an average. [James M. Harrington, Monroe. 



About one-fourth of the crop. [A. D. Edwards, Macon. 



In the black lands of Montgomery and Lowndes Couuties, Alabama, the worm rarely 

 if ever destroys less than one-half, and often three-fourths, of the crop. [ J. M. Mc- 

 Gehee, Milton, Florida. 



