428 EEPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



No particular side; usually near the woodland or swamp. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



The part where they do the moat noticeable work depends upon the tenderness and 

 vigorous growth of the plant during July, August and September. [A. J. Cheves, 

 Macon. 



No particular side ; as often in the middle as on either side. [Timothy Fussell 

 Coffee. 



West side, traveling east ; have seen them departing, mud in road full of them. 

 [William Harris, Worth. 



They commence work on the south side and travel northward. [E. M. Thompson, 

 Jackson. 



On the west or south side and sometimes in the center. [S. P. Odorn, Dooly. 



Generally the southwest. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. 



On the niost luxuriant spots in the center of the field. [William Jones, Clarke. 



LOUISIANA. 



On my own plantation they began to work on the southeast side, and I have noticed 

 that they make their appearance on or near the same spot. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West 

 Feliciana. 



They appear on no particular side of the fields. [John A. Maryman, East Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



The insect appears first in the wetter parts of the field, wherever they may be situ- 

 ated, and they are often found commencing in the bottoms, which are naturally wettest. 

 When a basin exists in the middle of a field they are most apt to start there. I never 

 saw them appear at the edge of a field. [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



They usually begin in the rankest cotton. [C. Welch, Coviugtou. 



They begin as often in the middle as anywhere else. [Kenneth Clark, Chickasaw. 



As to sides of the field on which the worms first begin to work, my observations are 

 that they commence of tener in the middle than on any particular side. [John C. Kus- 

 sell, Madison. 



Rarely, if ever, commence on any side or margin, and very often eat out all the inte- 

 rior and never reach the margins if bounded by forests. They usually begin at some 

 point in the interior of the field, and year after year at about the same point. [D. L. 

 Phares, Wilkinson. 



As often in the middle as anywhere else and always appear in the same spot first ; 

 as in my field they have appeared in the same spot for ten years ; it is low, wet bottom 

 land. [J. W. Bnrch, Jefferson. 



The south. [C. F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



It commonly attacks where the plants are in vigorous growth, but sometimes the 

 reverse is the case. [J. Culbertson.Rankiu. 



They never commence near the woods, but select the richest spots and gradually 

 spread over the field. [J. G. G. Garrett, Claiborne. 



No particular side, except where they pass from one plantation to another, which is 

 ften the case with the first crop of them. [W. Spillman, Clark. 



They first begin in some flat or depression in the fields; not at the side. [ George F. 

 Webb>mite. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



North and west. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



Have never noticed any difference. [ J. Evans, Cumberland. 



In a field bounded by woods on the east they never touched a plant near the wood. 

 [J. Stone, Gaston. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



As often from one side as another, and just as frequently in the middle or at several 

 points at once tbrough the entire field. [James W. Grace, Colleton. 



Any spot which has a low, moist, black soil. [Paul S. Felder, Orangebnrgh. 



No particular side, but in the most healthy and thrifty spot in the field ; if it be three 

 or four acres in the middle of 100 acres. [ J. C. Brown. 



TENNESSEE. 



The dampest side of the field, provided it is well exposed to the sun, is generally first 

 to sutler. [A. W. Hunt, Perry. 



TEXAS. 



The worm begins to work on the highest point in the field almost certain in this 

 country. The worms are to be found some distance in the field, hardly ever near 

 timber or the fencing. The highest, richest black laud is where they first appear, and, 

 strange to say, they will frequently leave some cotton untouched near timber about 

 the fences. [O. II. P. Garrett, Washington. 



