APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 463 



Many futile and unsuccessful efforts have been made, such as poisoning and build- 

 ing, but all proved to be a failure. [S. P. Odom, Dooly. 



Have never tried any remedies to destroy them. I think fires at night would destroy 

 the moth. [Timothy Fussell, Coffee. 



I do not believe any of the methods of destruction mentioned would do any good. 

 [William Jones, Clarke. 



They seldom appear in our neighborhood in such numbers as to do much damage, but 

 when they do come it seems as if any attempt to destroy them could not but be futile ; 

 certainly nothing has yet been done that is at all adequate. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



We have tried Paris green and arsenic alone, with some success. [William A. Harris, 

 Worth. 



The most satisfactory effort is the night-lamp. Paris green does its work well, but 

 it is dangerous. Fires built all over the field at night is, in my opinion, the best way 

 to destroy them. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



None has ever been used in this county. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. 



There has been little attention paid to the destruction of this moth, because we do 

 not consider them as hurtful as in other sections. [E. M. Thompson, Jackson. 



LOUISIANA. 



I know of nothing but Paris green being used of late years. Lamps, fires, and some 

 substance beneath the fire have been used, but abandoned, as it generally turned out 

 that enough moths escaped after being attracted by the fire to entirely destroy the 

 cotton where the fire was used. It might be advantageous to concentrate by this 

 means the worms on certain portions of the cotton, and flhen destroy them by Paris 

 green at. much less cost. Think they are attracted more by the light as all other moths 

 are. [H. B. Shaw, Concordia. 



No good has resulted from the efforts to allure and destroy the moths : no actual 

 benefit from poisoned sugar, molasses, and vinegar, and fires. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West 

 Feliciana. 



I have never tried any plan to destroy the moths, but have heard of many. No plan 

 will avail unless it is general, for the reason that one planter who neglects to destroy 

 the moths on his place, would cause enough to be produced in his fields to eat up the 

 whole neighborhood. No doubt thousands could be destroyed by logs piled up and 

 fired in the fields at night, or by fires built on platforms of pine, or other inflammable 

 materials, or by large lamps or other contrivances. The moths are attracted great dis- 

 tances at night by lights, and many injurious ways might be planned to attract and 

 destroy them. [D. M. Hamilton, West Feliciana. 



All efforts to destroy the moths have been useless. [John A. Marymau, East Felici- 

 ana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



For a number of years nothing in my part of the country has been done to destroy 

 them. Some attempts were at one time made, but did not prove satisfactory, and 

 have all been abandoned. Like every other misfortune, we have made up our minds 

 to submit to it. [K. Clarke, Chickasaw. 



Without general concert of action, I think individual effort would be useless. [C. 

 F. Sherriod, Lowndes. 



No efforts have been made here to destroy them, except to pick off and destroy the 

 worm and chrysalis, all of which proved futile. [C. Welch, Covington. 



Building fires at night has been practiced by some; the results I am unable to give. 

 I know of no poisoned sugar, &c., having been tried. [William T. Lewis, Winstou. 



Few or no remedies have been used in my locality. Some years since, light wood- 

 fires and plates filled with molasses and vinegar were used with partial success. Lan- 

 terns of several kinds have been used, all with some success, in destroying the moth. 

 [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



The people of this county do not dread the cotton- worm, and but little has been done 

 for its prevention or destruction. [J. Culbertson, Rankiu. 



I think fires, where general, are most satisfactory. [Daniel Cohen, Wilkinson. 



Nothing very satisfactory. [D. L. Phares, Wilkinson. 



Small tires at night destroy great numbers; do not know anything about the molas- 

 ses, &c. [W. Spillman, Clarke. 



Every effort to destroy them has been a failure. The greatest destruction of the 

 moth has been accomplished by placing lights in the fields at night ; the moth flies 

 into it and is destroyed ; fires are far the least expensive, and as much better than 

 poison as they are cheaper. [George V. Webb, Amite. 



Perfectly satisfactory to my mind when fully carried out. I saved my crop in 1874 

 by a system of lanterns, pans, coal-tar, molasses and vinegar. I used a post six feet 

 high and a sheet-iron pan, eighteen by twelve, on top of post, a block of wood in the 

 pan for the lantern to set in; pan filled with molasses or coal-tar : light the lantern 



