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plant when the proportion of coal-oil is too great ; 3d. The mixing of the oil and 

 water. [E. A. Smith, Tuscaloosa. 



No efforts have been made to destroy the moth. Fires will attract them. [H. A. 

 Stolenwerck, Perry. 



I have known little success to follow the efforts to destroy the moths. [D. Lee, 

 Lowndes. 



Paris green was used some years past for the cotton-worm. [George W. Thagard, 

 Crenshaw. 



Every effort to destroy the moth by allurement or traps are consummate failures. I 

 have experimented in trying to decoy, and have known others to try fires, traps, and 

 lamps at night, and every effort was worthless and a loss of time. Vinegar, molasses, 

 &c., on plates, or otherwise, worth nothing. [H. Hawkins, Barbour. 



No method has been even hopeful for decoying the moth. If a concerted effort could 

 be made with lights, sweetened water, and poison, success is possible, yet where one 

 plantation is guarded and another not, the moths from the unguarded field will be in 

 sufficient numbers to bring destruction in a few days. [P. T. Graves, Lowndes. 



The different methods have been tried to destroy the moth, but all have failed. [ J. 

 N. Gilmore, Snmter. 



Fires or lights at night attract them. [C. C. Howard, Autauga. 



But little value is attached to this method of destruction. It has only been tried on 

 a limited scale. Poisons, torches, &c., have been used with but little success. [R. W. 

 Russell, Lowndes. 



All methods of alluring the moth by fires or sweetened substances have proved 

 futile. Many are indeed destroyed, but sufficient remain to do their destructive 

 work. [R. S. Williams, Montgomery. 



As everywhere in Alabama and Mississippi, nothing is done at present for the de- 

 struction of Alctia. It is very troublesome to find a contrivance which has been in 

 use for some years. [E. A. Schwarz, Barbour. 



I spent one day and a half in hunting up a lantern which was used here three or 

 four years ago. The manufacturer of this lantern, which I sent to the department 



Eer express, sold, in 1873 or '74, K)0 at 75 cents apiece. The pan at the bottom of this 

 imp is filled with molasses. There is, of course, a chimney belonging to it, which 

 the express company refused to send on with the lantern. However, this chimney is 

 not peculiar. From information received from several farmers, I learned that these 

 lanterns were very effective and were discarded, partly owing to the fact that the 

 worms have not been destructive in the past few years, and partly because only a few 

 of the planters used them. The Rev. C. R. Dudley, of Canton, Miss., has invented and 

 patented, in 1872 or '73, a lantern for the destruction of Alclia, and about 50 of his 

 lanterns were sold in Canton at about $1 apiece. I did not succeed in getting one of 

 these lanterns, and the manufacturer of them, Mr. Snyder, in Canton, was uuable to 

 give me a. description. Mr. Dudley has taken back all lanterns not sold, and has re- 

 moved to Saint Louis, Mo., where letters will reach him care of Dr. Rob. Faris. These 

 lanterns consisted of a kerosene lamp with a parabolic refractor, and a sticky sub- 

 stance was smeared on a pan surrounding the lamp. [E. A. Schwarz, Barbour. 



ARKANSAS. 



There have been no remedies used to destroy it in this county, except a patent some 

 one made in the shape of a funnel with a light placed in it. I think fires would be 

 preferable to anything else, as the moth is attracted by light, and would be con- 

 sumed. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 



No experiments. [Norborne Young, Columbia. 



Some experiments made with fires show that the fires, while they attract the moths, 

 destroy but few, and fields in which fires have been kept have suffered more than those 

 adjacent in which there were no fires. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 



FLORIDA. 



Little or no effort has been made. My opinion is that something could be done with 

 poisoned molasses and fires or lamps. A few nights ago I placed a cup 3 inches in 

 diameter with a little molasses in it at a distance from lights and cotton-plants, and 

 found 6 moths in it the next morning, all of them cotton caterpillar moths. A year 

 or two ago I divided an overripe watermelon and placed it in a similar position, and 

 by eight o'clock at night there were 50 or 75 moths feeding on it. Watermelons could 

 be easily grown with cotton and made to serve a good purpose. [John Bradford, 

 Leon. 



No remedies ever tried in this county. [John B. Carrin, Taylor. 



Have no experience in destroying moths ; think that fires or rather torches at night, 

 established plentifully over the field, would be most destructive, as the moth seeks the 

 torch. I further believe that the field-hands ought to be instructed to watch or ob- 

 serve the plant closely when hoeing, and destroy all the worms found. Intelligent 

 and faithful hands might prevent the destructive increase by this timely preven- 

 tion. [F. M. Meekin, Alachua. 



