422 REPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



In June, winds daily with moderate force from south-southwest mostly. Same in 

 July and August. In these last sometimes a cyclone of several days, approaching 

 from east or southeast and closing from northwest. Generally the winds are so regu- 

 lar daily from May to September, so like the sea breeze, that we speak of them as sea 

 breezes. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



No prevailing winds, but thunder-clouds, forming and moving from all points of 

 the compass, preceded and accompanied by more or less rain. Dr. E. H. Anderson, 

 Madison. 



Southwest; velocity 8 miles per hour. [C. Welch, Covington. 



South. [Kenneth Clark, Chickasaw. 



South and southwest. [ J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 



South. [C. F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



South, southwest, and northwest. [W. Spillman, Clark. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Southwest. [J. Evans, Cumberland. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South, southwest, and south by west. [James W. Grace, Colleton. 

 South winds. [Paul S. Felder, Orangeburgh. 



June ; same as May, with occasional east winds (generally southwest). [James C. 

 Brown, Barnwell. 



TENNESSEE. 



West, southwest, and south rarely. Southwest predominating. [A. W. Hunt, M. 

 D., Perry. 

 Some very hard winds from the south and southwest. [John McMillan, Decatur. 



TEXAS. 



South. [Samuel Davis, Hunt. 



In June, i860, twenty-two days of south wind, three east, and two north, the remain- 

 der without wind; 1861, twenty-two days south wind, the rest shifting about. The 

 average force about three miles per hour. Our prevailing winds for three- fourths of the 

 year are from the south. There is scarcely a day without some wind, beginning at 8 or 

 9 a. m. and continuing till 5 or 6 p. m.; then the wind lulls. [J. M. Glasco, Upshur. 



Usually about six weeks from the 15th of June to last July or earlier, variable winds 

 and squally weather (thunder-squalls), after which the weather settles into regular 

 south, southeast, or southwest winds, with from two weeks' to two months' drought. 

 [W. Barnes, Cherokee. 



South, southeast, and southwest. [R. Wipprecht, Comal. 



Sauth. [II. J. II. Brensing, Miller. 



South, moderately brisk. [O. H. P. Garrett, Washington. 



Continuous rains from the east and southeast, heavy and sudden thunder-storms 

 from the south and west ; the prevailing wind is mostly south. [ J. H. Kancher, Austin. 



Southwest. [C. B. Richardson, Rusk. 



Southeast. [A. Underwood, Brazoria. 



South and east. [S. Harbert, Colorado. 



South and southwest. Natt. Holman, Fayette. 



Jane gives us south winds, shifting to southwest and west in case of rain if the 

 weather is dry, the winds are invariably south, breeze mild generally, but often brisk 

 and boisterous three or four days before a rain. [ J. W. Jackson, Titus. 



QUESTION 4/. Whether, in your opinion, there are winds from the south that are sufficiently 

 strong and constant to counteract the prevail ing trade-winds which arc toward the equator f 



ALABAMA. 



I can scarcely credit the suggestion that the wind is sufficiently strong or continuous 

 from the south to have much influence in the transportation of the moth. [C. M. 

 Howard, Autauga. 



Yes. [Knox, Minge, and Evans, Hale. 



It is my opinion it does not, or if it does is not of long duration. One thing, how- 

 ever, is true, that in the summer and autumn, should we have a constant breeze from 

 the south for twenty-four hours, we will as certainly have rain, whether the current is 

 strong or not. The south winds always bring rain in twenty-four to thirty-six hours. 

 [II. Hawkins, Barbour. 



While I think the wind is often strong enough from the south to drive before it the 



