APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAK. 437 



Once as early as the 20th of June, and again on the 26th of June. [ J. W. Jackson, 

 Titus. 



June. Plenty of them now, this the 25th day of June. [Natt Holman, Fayette. 



The first moth is generally seen in May. In 1867 the worm made its appearance in 

 April, before the cotton was chopped. (Season extremely wet.) Nearly every year 

 following they made their appearance from the 20th of May to the 10th of June. If 

 the season should be dry it takes about three months from the time the first worm is seen 

 till the cotton is destroyed ; but if a wet season, about two and a half mouths. I notify 

 every one on my farm when to look for worms in the spring, and have obtained the 

 above results. The worm when first appearing is green ; the second crop is green, 

 neither doing any damage; but the third has most black-back worms and soon de- 

 stroys the crop. It is just three weeks between each successive brood of worms. 

 After the brood becomes numerous enough to destroy the crops there is a continuous 

 laying and hatching of eggs until everything is eaten up, then all the imperfect worms 

 die. When the cotton is eaten up on the Brazos, 150 miles south of me, before we 

 have worms to hurt us, we begin at once to get ready to poison, as the moths when 

 hatched out cover the whole face of this county. They come in upon us, as it were, in 

 a day and lay our cotton full of eggs. The eggs are a light blue or dark green when 

 first laid, and approach to a gray color the nearer they approach hatching. The eggs 

 are not laid in clusters, but each egg separate. The young worm feeds on the under 

 side of the leaf. While young, and when old enough to pass to chrysalis, it will web 

 on anything that is convenient, but generally on the cotton if there is leaf enough, 

 and always on the upper side of the leaf. The chrysalis does not pass the winter 

 alive. Some farmers think the chrysalis enters the ground till spring, and then the 

 fly comes out. They believe this from the fact that they plow up many chrysalides 

 during the spring when breaking land. I have found the moth in midwinter housed 

 in old rotten trees. I had numbers of them caught and know them to be the verita- 

 ble cotton-lly. I have hatched out great numbers of them. They never fold their 

 wings as do some moths, but present rather a triangular shape and always light with 

 their head down or soon turn their head down if they light otherwise. [W. T. Hill, 

 Walker. 



The moths are scarcely ever seen until the first brood of worms have gone through 

 the first two stages of their life. I have heard some farmers say they had seen the fly about 

 - the middle of June. Now, the time of first appearance of the worm varies each year. 

 [J. M. Glasco, Upshur. 



Very seldom as early as June. The larger number generally appears from July to 

 September. [A. Schroeter, Burnet. 



From the 10th of June to the 1st of July. [S. B. Tackaberry, Polk. 



July 1 to 10. [W. Barnes, Cherokee. 



Early in July. [O. H. P. Garrett, Washington. 



About the 10th of June. [P. S. Watts, Harden. 



July. [R. Wipprecht, Comal. 



About July. [P. S. Clarke, Waller. 



The latter part of May or first of June, but not in great numbers. [ J. H. Krancher, 

 Austin. 



Some years late in June, but not often before the 1st of July, and sometimes not until 

 late in August, which was the case this year, 1878. [A. Underwood, Brazoria. 



They are noticed in the spring. [S. Harbert, Colorado. 



QUESTION 5 a. Date when the first icorms have been noticed in past years. 



ALABAMA. 



On uplands, 1873, July 1 ; on uplands, 1874, July 15; on swamp, 1874, July 15. On 

 uplands, 1875, none ; on swamp, 1875, June 11 On uplands, 1876, August 14 ; on swamp, 

 1876, July 12. On uplands, 1877, July 26 ; on swamp, 1877, May 31. On uplands, 1878, 

 August 27 ; on swamp, 1878, June. [ J. H. Smith and J. F. Calhoun, Dallas. 



The worm made its first appearance in this locality in 1874, the 31st day of July, but 

 not in sufficient numbers to do any material injury to the crop at that time, but had 

 destroyed it by the last day of August. I am not in possession of any reliable dates for 

 other years since, but as a rule they have come later each year. [ J. N. Gilmore, Sumter. 



May 12. [ J. A. Callaway, Montgomery. 



During the summer of 1873 the first worms were noticed in Julv, about the first of 

 that month. [R. F. Henry, Pickeus. 



Dates of appearance of caterpillar in my own crop may be given as follows, viz : 

 Marengo Couuty, Canebrake : 1869, August 15; 1870, late in September; 1871, late in 

 August; 1872, June 16; 1873, July 16; 1874, July 8; 1875, late in July; 1876, about 



