APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 411 



In a bad worm year, wet and cool, they destroy all tho top cotton, and necessarily it 

 is cut off one-half. [William A. Harris, Worth. 



The loss in my county in 18^5 and '40 was fully one-third. [William Jones, Clarke. 



The most notable cotton- worm years the estimate of the loss was about one-third. 

 [Timothy Fussell, Coffee. 



The losses from worms in this couaty have been very small, not one bale out of a 

 thousand. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



Half the crop, at least. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. 



In the years when most destructive, their damages are at least 25 per cent. [S. P. 

 Odom, Dooly. 



Never greater than from 10 to 20 per cent. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



LOUISIANA. 



In 1841 the losses were greatest from injury done to the quality of the cotton from 

 the litter and excrement dropped by the worms on the open bolls. Their appearance 

 was late and a good crop of bolls had already been matured ou the stalks before they 

 appeared in sufficient numbers to destroy the plants. The last crop of worms were 

 very large, and roads, ditches, and all places were tilled with them, when they began 

 their march after eating out the cotton-lields. In 1846 the cotton-crops hero were cut 

 short from 50 to GO per cent. In the last fourteen years, the destructive years were 

 particularly 18(57, '71, '72, and '73. [Douglas M. Hamilton, West Feliciaua. 



The losses vary from four-fifths to one-third. In 1844 the fanners scarcely raised 

 cotton-seed enough to plant their crops of 1845. [John A. Mary man, East Feliciana. 



The loss during the years mentioned was fully two-thirds. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West 

 Felieiana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



I will give the estimate of the loss for the first destructive year (1846). The plant- 

 ers say that in this locality not more than one-third of a crop was raised that year, 

 or a loss of about 66 per cent, of whole crop. [George F. Webb, Amite. 



I have never seen an estimate, but would say the damage done to each crop, visited 

 as early as August, would bo over one-third. [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



In 1845 loss was two- thirds ; in 1804, nine-tenths ; since then from one-fourth to little 

 or nothing. This season in some places one-third. [ J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 



About 25 per cent. [William T. Lewis, Winston. 



In 1873, damage to my crop 40 to 50 per cent. ; other years 10 to 25 per cent. [Dan- 

 iel Cohen, Wilkinson. 



In 1847 or '48 tho loss was probably 50 per cent., and in one year between 1865 and 

 '70, the loss was probably 60 per cent. This year I j udge the loss does not exceed 10 

 per cent. [C. Welch, Coviugton. 



It is commonly thought that the loss of the leaves, which usually takes place in 

 September, is an advantage, as it hastens the maturing and opening of the bolls. The 

 area stripped in August is never considerable. [J. Culbertsou, Rankiii. 



When they commence early, one-third ; late, one-fourth. [W. Spillman, Clarke. 



At least one-half of the ordinary crop when worms are bad. There are very few 

 years that there are no worms. In fact, I don't recollect that I ever saw a single year 

 without a few. [Kenneth Clarke, Chickasaw. 



It is a difficult matter in general to estimate the loss done to a crop. I think though 

 in some notable years with the worm, an overestimate has not been made in saying 

 that the loss was one-fourth, and I would not consider it exaggeration in hearing it 

 estimated to be one-half. [John C. Russell, Madison. 



In 1825 and '46 fully 50 per cent. In 1867, '68, and '73 probably 25 per cent. Many 

 other years and for several successive years, in certain localities, I have known the crop 

 wholly destroyed in July, so that not enough seed was matured to plant next year's 

 crop. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



The crop is injured about one-third. All the young fruit is ruined by them. We 

 used to calculate there was a certaiuty of most of the blooms making, that came before 

 the 10th of September. Now we cannot count on any after the 1st of August. Our 

 crops have fallen off at least one-third since they have been visited by the worms. [C. 

 F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



The worm is so late in making its appearance in this latitude that it is doubtful if 

 they ever do any injury. In fact, many farmers consider them as a benefit, as they eat 

 off the top leaves, and letting the sun in on the lower bolls, causes them to open better. 

 As they have never been looked on as an evil, I have never studied them closely, and 

 hence cannot make an intelligent report. [ J. Evans, Cumberland. 



Very slight. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



