APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 475 



Nothing. [C. B. Richardson, Rusk. 



Nothing. [A. Underwood, Brazoria. 



Nothing. [S. Harbert, Colorado. 



None. My observation is that they deposit their eggs early in the night, and that 

 they hatch in a few hours. [Natt Holman, Fayette. 



None in this locality. The destruction of the chrysalides would be much easier and 

 more effectual. [J. W. Jackson, Titus. 



QUESTION 7g.Has anything been found more generally useful and applicable, or cheaper, 

 than the use of the Paris green mixture to destroy the worms ? 



ALABAMA. 



Among planters a general doubt prevails as to the value of Paris green. That it 

 will kill the worms that eat it is not doubted, but to distribute it on all parts of the 

 foliage is practically impossible. That, with heavy rains cleaning the leaves for a 

 fresh raid of worms, with a renewal of the fight at a time when cotton-picking claims 

 all the labor of the farm, has caused many planters to doubt the value of poison. [P. 

 T. Graves, Lowndes. 



Arsenic is cheaper than Paris green, but some think it not so efficacious. I think, 

 if dissolved, arsenic will answer all the purposes providing it is not raining too much, 

 in which event vou will have to use it otherwise, say, in flour or lime or ashes. [R. 

 W. Russell, Lowndes. 



Nothing that I know of. [John D. Johnston, Sumter. 



Nothing that I have ever used. [R. S. Williams, Montgomery. 



Nothing. [ J. A. Callaway, Montgomery. 



Some bave used arsenic dissolved in boiling water as cheaper than Paris green. 

 [H. Tutwiler, Hale. 



cost 



of September 



time and you are comparatively safe. But all your neighbors must join you in this. 

 Yet much good can be accomplished by Paris green if taken in time. [I. D. Dries- 

 bach, Baldwin. 



After considerable experience with Paris green, L e., six years' use of it, I am dis- 

 posed to think cotton does not yield fruit that is fresh fruit after that poison is ap- 

 plied to it. It is too great a stimulant, and too apt to be absorbed by the growing 

 plant. The present cost of Paris green is 20 cents per acre. I have used the " Texas 

 worm-destroyer" with all the advantage claimed for Paris green, and with none of its 

 bad effects. This is an arsenious preparation, the cost of which is about 25 to 35 cents 

 per acre. [ J. W. Du Bose, Montgomery. 



Nothing has been found superior to Paris green for the destruction of the worm. 

 [A. D. Edwards, Macon. 



Arsenic, which is cheaper than Paris green because it takes so much less. [J. R. 

 Rogers, Bullock. 



1 have no experience with Paris green, and can say nothing of it from personal 

 knowledge, and certainly know of nothing better, unless it might be found in a gang 

 of a hundred or two hundred turkeys turned into a field and confined to the -worm-in- 

 fested cotton. [A. Jay, Conecuh. 



Nothing has ever been used in this county more generally useful or applicable than 

 the Paris green mixture to destroy worms, and it is far cheaper than would be any 

 plans to destroy the eggs or the moth. I have several times used the Paris green and 

 other preparations ; found Paris green cheapest and best. [H. Hawkins, Barbour. 



Paris green or arsenic is used when any attempt is made to destroy them. [C. C. 

 Howard, Autauga. 



Paris green has been used to a very limited extent here, and in several instances it 

 has killed the cotton-plant. [ J. N. Gilmore, Sumter. 



No. [R. F. Henry, Pickens. 



Nothing ; and that is a humbug. If you can poison the atmosphere so as to kill the 

 moth and nothing else, then talk about poisoning. [J. C. Matthews, Dale. 



There has not. [H. C. Brown, Wilcox. 



Paris green will destroy them when all other remedies fail ; nothing surer or cheaper. 

 [P. D. Bowles, Conecuh. 



Nothing more certain to kill than Paris green. White arsenic is cheaper and very 

 sure if the weather is favorable. [D. Lee, Lowndes. 



Nothing that I know of; and Paris green is a failure as far as practical results are 

 concerned. [M. W. Hand, Greene. 



