476 REPORT UPOX COTTON INSECTS. 



I think the Texas worm-destroyer better. [James M. Harrington, Monroe. 



Nothing. [H. A. Stolenwerck, Perry. 



Arsenic. [R. H. Powell, Bullock. 



No. [Knox, Minge, and Evans, Hale. 



Nothing. [C. M. Howard, Autauga. 



Mr. Donavan claims to be the first who ever applied Paris green for the destruction 

 of the cotton-worms. This was in 1871 or '72, in a separate field of about one aero. 

 He applied the poison in the month of August, early in the morning before the clew 

 was dried, distributing large quantities of it with the hand over the plants until he 

 was satisfied that every leaf was covered. The success was complete, and one applica- 

 tion of the poison was sufficient to prevent the worms from becoming injurious. [E. 

 A. Schwavz, Eufaula. 



The "Texas anti-worm prescription " is cheaper than Paris green, but it is too weak, 

 and one and a half measures to forty gallons of water are required to kill the worms. 

 It is, we suppose, arsenic in a soluble state. It is well known here that arsenic, if too 

 freely applied, will injure the cotton, either by itself or in combination with other 

 poisonous substances; and the only advantage which the Texas poison has is that it 

 can be applied when the dew is not on the cotton ; and to protect the farm both Roy- 

 all's patent and Texas destroyer had better be on hand, and plenty of it. [Dr. John 

 Peurifoy, Montgomery. 



ARKANSAS. 



No kind of poison used here. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 



Don't know. Paris green not used here. [Norborne Young, Columbia. 



FLORIDA. 



Nothing that I have heard of. [John Bradford, Leon. 

 Have heard kerosene oil much vaunted. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



Paris green and all such poisoning is a humbug. [S. P. Odom, Dooly. 



Never used. [E. M. Thompson, Jackson. 



We think the lamp is cheaper and safer. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



No poisons have ever been tried in this county. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. 



Nothing that I have ever seen or heard of. [William A. Harris, Worth. 



No experience in Paris-green mixture. [William Jones, Clarke. 



Neither Paris green nor any other poison has ever been used in Coffee County. 

 [Timothy Fussell, Coffee. 



LOUISIANA. 



Nothing. [H. B. Shaw, Concordia. 



Paris green is the poison which has been always used here to destroy the worms, so 

 far as my observation has gone. A preparation called the " Texas cotton- worm killer," 

 or destroyer, has also been extensively advertised, and, perhaps, may have been a good 

 deal used in other sections, but I have never seen it tried, personally. I have seen, 

 many times, where the Paris green has been used with great success. The most suc- 

 cessful plan was by the solution of so many pounds of poison to so many gallons of 

 water, and then applied by men riding on horses or mules between the rows of cotton 

 and sprinkling the solution well on the plants as they went. It is a slow process, and 

 requires time and patience to do it well, but when done as well as it should be, and 

 begun and repeated at the proper times it destroys the worms utterly and completely. 

 In fact, in many places where this mixture or the Texas poison have been often used 

 and their mode of application well understood, the cotton-worm has ceased to be the 

 dread and terror it once was. There is a plan of applying the Paris green by mixing 

 it with flour in certain proportions and sifting it from a box carried on the end of a 

 pole, and this carried by a man who rides on horseback over the fields and dusts the 

 preparation over the cotton-plants within his route. I never liked this mode of ap- 

 plication as well as the first-mentioned. [D. M. Hamilton, West Feliciana. 



Nothing has been found to destroy them but Paris green. [John A. Maryman, East 

 Feliciana. 



The Paris-green mixture will destroy the cotton-worm, but at the same time will 

 destroy the fructification of the cot con- plant. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



In mid-day, when the sun is very hot, if the cotton-stalk is jarred by a brush being 



rssed over it, large quantities of the worm will be dislodged and fall to the ground. 

 have seen them die in five minutes when it was very warm. Large quantities of 

 them could be destroyed by tying brush at intervals on a rope that would drag in be- 

 tween the rows. Let it be carried by two men and brush out four rows at a time. 

 [C. F. Sherriod, Lowudes. 



Neither Paris green nor any other poison has been tried to any extent. [C. Welch, 

 Coviugton. 



