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always clearing up after a northwest current. The force of the wind, except during 

 btorms, I would estimate at six miles per hour. [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



No records at hand ; but from any one's observations and recollections, most of the 

 days in February with moderate force from northeast, east, southeast, and south. 

 During this month almost every year there is a fierce wind from northwest, sometimes 

 once, ol'tener perhaps twice, rarely thrice, of one or two days' duration, and bringing 

 ee% ere cold. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



We rarely have more than two or three days when the wind does not get to the 

 south in spring and summer months. A great many theories are advanced about the 

 migration of the moth. Several years ago some farmers believed they were wintered 

 in the hollow or pith of both the cotton and corn stalk, and they burned both to get 

 rid of them. If that was correct, and all burned, it might do some good. [K. Clarke, 

 Chickasaw. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



From southwest: force rarely reaches twelve miles per hour, unless in stormy 

 weather. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South and southwest. [James W. Grace, Colletou. 



TENNESSEE. 



I have been a close observer of this species of the insect family in question, and while 

 I am aware that the moth is occasionally found in parts of our country remote from the 

 cotton-belt, I am satisfied such cases are rare and wholly adventitious. There cer- 

 tainly is no sufficient evidence that there is a system in the migrations of this insect 

 or fly. While it might be barely possible that an erratic moth might make its way, 

 under very extraordinary circumstances, from a more southern State to this State, and 

 propagate its species here, the fact that after several years of total exemption here, of 

 a sudden our fields become infested, could not bo accounted for on the migratory the- 

 ory in the absence of ocular evidence of clouds of the moths engaged in the northward 

 migration, &c. [A. W. Hunt, M. D., Perry. 



The wind blows mostly from the southeast ; we have some very hard winds from 

 the southwest and west. [.I. McMillan, Decatur. 



TEXAS. 



The worm generally makes its appearance first in the lower coast counties and appears 

 to work its way up the country, being favored by the winds generally prevailing at 

 the time, east, southeast, and south-southwest. They almost invariably make their 

 first appearance in Brazoria, Fort Bend, Wharton, and Colorado Counties, lying east, 

 southeast, and south of this, then working their way up along the Colorado or Brazos 

 River bottoms and plantations. During the last two or three years they generally 

 appeared about three or four weeks previous to their appearance here eighteen to 

 twenty miles south of us on the Colorado River, then coming across the prairie along 

 the edge of the upland timber with the prevailing sea breeze. [ J. H. Krancher, Austin. 



South and southeast varied by northern, at intervals of two or three days. [Saul 

 Davis, Hunt. 



South to southeast in general , fifteen to twenty miles. [W. Barnes, Cherokee. 



From south and south by east during the spring and summer months. In May we 

 are apt to have the most constant and strongest winds from the south; the stronger 

 the winds the less it rains. [O. H. P. Garrett, Washington. 



The prevailing direction of the wind in Southern Texas is constantly from the south; 

 i. e., from the Gulf of Mexico. Sometimes we have a north wind for two or three days, 

 blowing usually at the rate of twenty miles. [W. T. Hill, Walker. 



Southeast in fair, pleasant weather, east in rainy, and north in cold weather. [A. 

 Underwood, Brazoria. 



My observation is that they make their appearance in the spring, and are found in 

 bottom lands that are heavily timbered first, around drift-logs, &c., and remain for 

 some time in the timber and high, rank weeds, always showing more just after a rain. 

 [Natt Holman, Fayetto. 



1 have no doubt that the moth is at times, if not habitually, migratory, as I have 

 observed it to appear in large numbers all of a sudden, and in seasons when previous 

 to their arrival the conditions for their development and increase had been very un- 

 favorable, so much so that it was a hard task to find a half a dozen of them in a field 

 of ten acres, while the next morning the air was full of them, the wind blowing at 

 that time the same that it does nearly all the year round, from southeast. [A. Schroe- 

 ter, Burnet. 



