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which do not die on it. They often disappear in twenty- four hours. I have seen the 

 ground covered to-day and all gone to-morrow. [J. C. Ma t> hews, Dale. 



I have never known them to feed on any other plant. [H. A. Stolenwerck, Perry. 



Can't, and never have. [James M. Harrington, Monroe. 



I never knew the worm to eat any other plant except cotton ; they web up in other 

 plants but never eat it. [H. C. Brown, Wilcox. 



I have never known it to feed on any other than the cotton-plant. It is peculiar in 

 its looks and habits from all other worms. [I. D. Dtiesbach, Baldwin. 



I have never known of their feeding on anything bat the cotron-plant. [C. M. How- 

 ard, Autauga. 



I believe it cannot and never does. [ J- W. Du Bose, Montgomery. 



I have never known the Alelia argillacea to eat any other plant. [D. Lee, Lowndes. 



None.-[M. W. Hand, Greene. 



ARKANSAS. 



I have never seen nor heard of them feeding on anything else. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 

 Only on the cotton. [Noiborne Young, Columbia. 



FLORIDA. 



Have never heard of their feeding on anything else. [John Bradford, Leon. 



I have never known it to feed on any other plant thau the cotton-plant. [ J. M. Me- 

 Gehep, Santa Rosa. 



It does. We have. [John B. Carrin, Taylor. 



I believe that it does. I believe that the great loss by the ravages of the cotton 

 caterpillar could be avoided by simultaneous action by all interested and at small 

 cost. The insect is indigenous to the country, consequently finds in the forest plants 

 adapted to its wan' 8 and would be present in the country were there not a stalk of 

 cotton in it. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



The worm was never found by him (Henry Gaston) on anything but cotton, and he 

 had noticed it leaving one patch of cotton and going to another when leaf failed and 

 there was nothing for the worms to continue feeding upon. He had used Paris green, 

 dusted in a dry state upon the leaves, and it killed the worms. Care had to be used 

 by him to avoid the poison getting into his eyes or on sores or tender places of the 

 body. [A. R. Grote. 



I do not think they will eat anything but cotton. [William Jones, Clarke. 



Never have known it to feed on anything but cotton. [William A. Harris, Worth. 



The worm sometimes feeds on corn-fodder ; they eat also crop-grass. It may not be 

 the same species of worm, but I think it is. [E. M. Thompson, Jackson. 



Worms feed upon nothing but cotton, when they start on the cotton. [Timothy Fus- 

 sell, Coffee. 



I have never known them to feed on any thing but cotton in this locality. [M. Kemp, 

 Marion. 



LOUISIANA. 



I have never known the cotfcon-worm to feed upon anything but the cotton-plant. 

 [John A. Mary man. West Feliciana. 



I have seen millions dying all over the field, surrounded by every species of vegeta- 

 tion, but not a cotton-leaf. [H. B. Shaw, Concordia. 



The army worm feeds exclusively on the cotton-plant, and its existence terminates 

 when it has destroyed this utterly. Millions of them, of all ages, colors, and sizes, take 

 up their march alter destroying a field, and I have never seen or heard of their seizing 

 on any other sort of vegetation to sustain thei'r lives at this period. I have never 

 made any experiments in trying to hatch out and feed and rear the worms in bottles, 

 boxes, or close rooms, though others have done so here. 1 do not know what has been 

 the result of these various experiments, never having witnessed or informed myself 

 about them. Like the worms peculiar to the tobacco-plants, mulberry, cabbage, &c., 

 the army worm seems to bo peculiar to the cotton plant, and where it appears gener- 

 ally and in numbers, they are found in every piece of cotton, no matter how large or 

 small, or what its peculiarities are as to location and surroundings. [Douglas M.Ham- 

 ilton, West Feliciaua. 



After they have totally destroyed the cotton-plant, I have known them to feed upon 

 other plants to sustain life until they could form their web. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West 

 Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



The worm feeds alone on cotton. [George V. Webb, Amite. 

 It feeds on the crab grass. [William T. Lewis, Winston. 

 Never. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



No ; and I have noticed them closely. [J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 

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