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first week in May. An intelligent colored man, of long experience -with the cotton- 

 worm, informs us that the chrysalides th.it. are plowed up in the spring are those which 

 fail to hatch in the fall, in consequence of the lateness of the season and the super- 

 vention of cold weather ; that they ultimately fall on the ground and hide themselves 

 by boring iuto it. [Dr. John Peurifoy, Montgomery. 



ARKANSAS. 



The chrysalides remain in the ground, in cotton-stalks, in corn-stalks, about old 

 stumps and trees, in woods adjacent to cotton-fields, through the winter. This I know 

 from nersonnl observation and from other persons who have made careful examina- 

 tions.-^. T. Dale, Miller. 



I have never noticed one after the weather gets cold. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 



Yes: have found them healthy in January, taken out of the ground and cotton- 

 stalks. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 



Can't say that 1 have. [Norborne Young, Columbia. 



FLORIDA. 



The chrysalis as such never remains, but going through the natural mutations the 

 moth leaves the vicinity of the fields. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



I have seen thousands of bales of cotton destroyed in Montgomery and Lowndes 

 Counties, Alabama, but have never seen the chrysalis of the worm in any form. [ J. 

 M. McGehee, Santa Rosa. 



NOTE. It is maintained by some planters that the chrysalides of the Alctia argiUacea 

 is often plowed up in the spring. As a planter of fifty years' experience, I have failed to 

 find such chrysalides. I have repeatedly requested those who claimed to have seen 

 them either to subject them to proof by incubation or to furnish me with them, and 

 I would do so in order to set the matter at rest. Up to this date no realization of this 

 theory has been arrived at. [Robert Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



I have collected a number of chrysalides and hung them in a northern exposure, 

 where they survived a temperature of 12 Fahr. After this I left home, and watched 

 them no longer. [William Jones, Clarke. 



Another correspondent (Putnam County) writes : " During the winter of 1874-75, 1 

 found a number of chrysalides in a sound, healthy state, after we had bad several 

 frosts and freezes; but they were protected by the bark on dead trees or stumps about 

 the field, and I think that this is rather the exception than the rule/' 



I have, but generally in a protected spot. [William A. Harris, Worth. 



I have not. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



No. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. 



I have not known the chrysalis to survive a frost or found healthy in winter. [T. 

 Fussell, Coffee. 



I never have. The chrysalis wings and migrates before frost. The larva and 

 chrysalis found on the stalk after frost perishes before migration. [S. P. Odom, 

 Dooly. 



I never see any appearance of life in the chrysalis after frost and cold weather sets 

 in. [E. M. Thompson, Jackson. 



LOUISIANA. 



No. [H. B. Shaw, Corcordia. 



I have heard of the chrysalis being plowed np itr the spring, and also of the moths 

 being found in sheltered places during winter in hay and fodder stacks, outbuildings, 

 under the bark of old logs and stumps but I cannot say that I have ever seen any- 

 thing of the sort. [Douglas M. Hamilton, West Feliciana. 



I have known the chrysalis to survive winters, having plowed them up in February 

 in a live condition. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West Feliciana. 



I have found the chrysalis when plowing in the month of February the year pre- 

 ceding the destruction of the cotton. They were really so thick in the ground that I 

 was very much discouraged. But after breaking the ground up completely there came a 

 rain that lasted three days and nights ; then the ground froze and destroyed the worms 

 in the chrysalis form, and to my surprise we had a good crop year. [John A. Mary- 

 man, East Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



My observation and experience has led me to conclude the Anomis is native and 

 does hibernate in some form ; that cultivation in July and August tinder certain con- 

 ditions of season, such as plowing the land before the surface-soil is in good state for 

 plowing, produces an artificial state of heat and moisture which is the most favorable 

 for the hatching of eggs. The egg must survive the winter protected in the ground. 

 [E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



Often. [J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 



I never have. [Kenneth Clark, Chickasaw. 





