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in destructive numbers. The best mode seems to be to set up lights in the field above 

 or in front of some sweet adhesive substance. Moths appear to be attracted by all 

 sweet substances. I have seen them attracted in thousands, after the first brood had 

 webbed up, by dried peaches that were dried on boards in the sun, and had been cov- 

 ered at night with boards, the moths collecting in thousands under the covering of 

 the dry peaches, hundreds being killed by a lamp in a short time. A mouse made a 

 nest with the dead moths the same night. [ J. H. Krancher, Austin. 



I am satisfied that this moth does not come here to toil, neither to spin, nor to hunt 

 sweet-scented flowers, nor boards nor trees nor any other thing besmeared with sweet- 

 ened substances, but to lay its eggs, nothing more, then lie down and die. [P. S. 

 Clarke, Waller. 



Watermelons cut open and spread around with arsenic sprinkled on them will kill 

 the moth. [Natt. Holman, Fayette. 



I have tried to allure the moth with fire, both lamp and torch, also molasses and 

 vinegar, with but little effect. The only one that promises to be a safe remedy is a 

 preparation of arsenic manufactured at Galveston, Tex. It is applied by sprinkling 

 liquid like Paris green, known as the "Texas cotton-worm destroyer." [J. W. Jack- 

 son, Titus. 



I used with full effect the arsenite of soda combined with a little vinegar and mo- 

 lasses. I did not use any intoxicating liquids as I was fully satisfied that every moth 

 imbibing the poisoned sweet was instantly killed, none of the dead appearing at any 

 appreciable distance from the pans. [William J. Jones, Galveston. 



QUESTION 7 a. Are the moths most attracted to sweetened substances when smeared onto 

 trees, boards, #c., or when contained in vessels in or near which lamps may be lighted ? 



ALABAMA. 



Have always noticed that while making molasses at night, unless some protection 

 is used, the evaporator will' be frequently choked with the moth, either attracted by 

 the odor of the cooking sirup or by the light, or both. [R. F. Henry, Pickens. 



Attracted to vessels when near lights, and great numbers are destroyed by the 

 lights. [John D. Johnson, Sumter. 



I think it would make but little difference wherever it was placed. [R. W. Russell, 

 Lowndes. 



I do not know that they are attracted by saccharine substances. [R. S. Williams, 

 Montgomery. 



They are often seen in great numbers under apple trees where the apples have fallen 

 and were rotting on the ground; also under peach trees where the peaches have 

 fallen. [H. Tutwiler, Hale. 



On trees, boards, &c. [J. A. Calaway, Montgomery. 



Of the attraction of molasses or any other preparation on trees where lamps or fires 

 are lighted we have no experience. They are all certainly too slow for this emergency, 

 when the Lord Almighty only knows how many eggs one moth will lay. [Dr. John 

 Peurifoy, Montgomery. 



I do not know ; lights do not attract them much, though sometimes one may be seen 

 flying around the lamp. [D. Lee, Lowndes. 



We have tried fires. [Knox, Minge, Evans, and Hale. 



I know that the wine-press will attract them by thousands in the night two or three 

 miles from the cotton-field. I have noticed the tubs left under the press at night 

 would have two or three hundred moths in next morning ; no lights near the wine- 

 press ; this the 1st of September. Never heard of any one trying any of the articles 

 named. [P. D. Bowles, Conecnh. 



I have never tried sweetened substances, &c. ; but I see they are readily attracted 

 to newly pulled fodder. [James M. Harrington, Monroe. 



Have no knowledge on this question. We noticed this year that the moths were 

 more numerous under the persimmon trees when the fruit was ripe and fallen on the 

 ground. They collected in large numbers under the trees, I suppose sucking the sweet 

 of the persimmon. [H. A. Stolenwerck, Perry. 



Never heard of sweetened substances being used. [H. C. Brown, Wilcox. 



I do not think they are. [ J. C. Matthews, Dale. 



The moth is often found feeding under apple and peach trees, where decayed fruit 

 is plentiful ; also later in th.e season under persimmon trees. [C. M. Howard, Autauga. 



As yet I have not been fortunate in getting a solution by which the moths are readily 

 killed. I tried corrosive sublimate and arsenious acid, with rum, molasses, and water 

 in various proportions. The solutions I have smeared upon pine trees standing in the 

 field, upon little shelves set up at places in the field, and upon a dish placed upon a 

 stump. To one pine tree in particular tiie moths seemed to be attracted most strongly. 



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