APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 441 



Having appeared first in the prairies, as usual, they spread to the sandy land on the 

 Tallapoosa River and did considerable damage, and disappeared in the cool weather 

 in the first weeks of October. [Dr. John Peurifoy, Montgomery. 



ARKANSAS. 



September 30 about the average, though sometimes as late as frost. [E. T. Dale, 

 Miller. 



In 1875 they remained until frost. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 

 Until frost. [Norborne Young, Columbia. 



FLORIDA. 



Have known them to come "in force" and eat out the crop the last of September. 

 [John Bradford, Leon. 



Very few are seen the last of August and first of September. [ J. M. McGehee, 

 Santa Rosa. 



About the first of November. [John B. Carrin, Taylor. 



Often remaining on the fields after frosts as caterpillars; arein the fields at this time, 

 September 29. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



Past years the 25th of October. [Timothy Fussell, Coffee. 



October; have seen none the present year. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



They disappear at the first frost, say, October 15. [S. P. Odom, Dooly. 



At the appearance of frost. [D. P. Luke, Berrian. 



In October, even after a slight frost if late cotton young and succulent. [William 

 A. Harris, Worth. 



Their last appearance is governed by the appearance of heavy frost, which varies 

 from last of October to latter part of November. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



In 1869 and 1874 from the 20th to the 30th of September. [E. M. Thompson, Jack- 

 Bon. 



LOUISIANA. 



Sometimes the last worms are seen soon after they have eaten out the cotton-fiolds 

 in August, September, or October, as the case maybe. Again, they eat the cotton very 

 slowly, and continue to eat it until cold weather comes to kill both worm and cotton. 

 [Douglas M. Hamilton, West Feliciana. 



I have seen them as late as the middle of October. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West Feliciana. 



Worms are seen sometimes until frost. [John A. Maryman, East Felicia,n-i. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



The last crop of worms were just coming out the 12th of October, when we had our 

 first slight frost. They began to disappear very soon, and I could find no chrysalides. 

 They did not fold in the leaf as the preceding crop did. [C. F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



A few now (November 3) after ice and frost ; plenty of chrysalides hanging to the 

 skeleton of the dead leaves. I kill them every day as I walk through my fields. [ J. 

 W. Burch, Jefferson. 



They can be found as long as there are any green cotton-leaves ; that is, till frost. 

 [J. Cnlbertson, Rankin. 



July, August, September, when food has been consumed or rendered unfit for their 

 use ; otherwise October, November, and even as late as December. [D. L. Phares, 

 Wilkinson. 



Worms are here in October if there is any living foliage on the plant, and they stay 

 till it is cleaned out by them or frost, which is often late as November. [John C. Rus- 

 sell, Madison. 



They are rarely observed here after October, unless the frost is late, when- the lo,8t 

 brood may be found in November. [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



The last worms seen this year was about September 10. Some years they are seen 

 till October 15. [C. Welch, Covidgton. 



October. [Kenneth Clarke, Chickasaw. 



They were in some fields this year alter the first frost, on the 7th of October. [I. G. 

 G. Garrett, Claiborne. 



They were in my cotton-field this year until the latter part of October. [W. Spill- 

 man, Clark. 



In past years the last have been seen about the 20th of October, when frost was that 

 late, usually at frost. [George V. Webb, Amite. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



About September 15. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



