478 . REPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



Yes ; it will kill anything that gets to the leaf and eats it ; it washes off by rain 

 and is carried off into the streams of water, and some stock have died from drinking 

 the water. [J. C. Matthews, Dale. 



It will kill the leaves if applied too strong. Have known no serious injury to man 

 or animal. [H. A. Stolenwerck, Perry. 



It injures the plant. [James M. Harrington, Monroe. 



Have heard of cows eating the cotton-leaves after the Paris green had been sprinkled 

 upon it, and that it killed some of them. [P. D. Bowles, Conecuh. 



I have known of none ; but once I observed that the applications of Paris green 

 seemingly dwarfed the growth of the common field-pea, grown upon the same soil the 

 following year. [C. M. Howard, Autauga. 



Yes; the plant frequently ceases to fruit ; field-hands have been injured sometimes 

 severely, and stock killed. [M. W. Hand, Greene. 



Yes ; two heavy an application destroys the plant, and if not carefully handled in- 

 jurious to man and beast. [Knox, Minge, and Evans, Halo. 



The plant is injured by too copious an application of Paris green. I have known 

 no injuries from its use, to man or animal. [A. D. Edwards, Macon. 



It stops the plant from bearing, and if too strong kills the plant. I have heard of 

 horses and cows having been killed by drinking out of vessels in which poison had 

 been mixed. With care there is no danger to man or beast. [D. Lee, Lowndes. 



If used too freely arsenic will kill the plant. [R. H. Powell, Bullock. 



I have never known any injuries to man or beast, but when applied too strong it 

 hurts or burns the cotton and perhaps prevents it making any fruit more than to ma- 

 ture what it has. [H. Hawkins, Barbour. 



I saw a field where Paris green had been applied, and the cotton was as lifeless and 

 as unproductive as it posaibly would have been if every leaf had been eaten off by the 

 worm. [Andrew Jay, Conecuh. 



Yes ; on all of them. [ J. R. Rogers, Bullock. 



I have heard of local poisoning, [C. C. Howard, Autauga. 



The young bolls of cotton sLow. the effects of po'ison where the atoms fall upon 

 them ; some partially rot. Arsenic in solution produces a caustic blight on the leaves 

 when not greatly reduced. Some few animals have been killed by eating Paris green 

 and flour mixed. Less damge has resulted than was feared. [P. T. Barnes, Lowudes. 



If too much poison is put on the plant it will injure it ; say of arsenic 1 pound to 

 the acre in 30 gallons of water dissolved, will kill the worms and not injure the cotton. 

 I have known no injury to man or beast from the use of it. [R. W. Russell, Lowudes. 



If used injudiciously it will destroy the plant. Have seen the hands from careless- 

 ness poisoned with it. Have known it to kill stock. [R. S. Williams, Montgomery. 



I am satisfied that the poison injures the cotton-plant ; that it appears to close up 

 the pores of the leaf, and the cotton stops fruiting. [I. F. Culver, Bullock. 



None in my experience. [John D. Johnston, Sumter. 



Injurious to plant when put on too strong, and to men and animals if saturated with 

 solution in applying. [J. H. Sinifch and J. F. Calhoun, Dallas. 



I have known it to kill the cotton-plant. I never have known it to injure animals 

 of any kind. [ J. N. Gilmore, Suinter. 



ARKANSAS. 



Have known of the plant being killed. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 

 No. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 



FLORIDA. 



None whatever. [John Bradford, Leon. 

 No. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



I have heard it said that it is very injurious to cattle. [S. P. Odom, Dooly. 



Not of my own knowledge. Some of my neighbors say that it destroys the birds that 

 will do as much good in destroying the worm as the Paris green. [M. Kemp, Marion. 



None. [T. Fussell, Coffee. 



Have heard of injuries to the plant in Dougherty County, but none to man or beast. 

 [D. P. Lnke, Berrien. 



Yes ; it has killed some stock that got in cotton -fields where used. [William A.Har- 

 ris, Worth. 



LOUISIANA. 



Yes ; if too strong will kill the plant. If the mules are galled or have old sores, will 

 make them very hard to heal ; same with the men who handle it. If any ordinary care 

 is taken, no bad effects result from the use of it. [H. B. Shaw', Concordia. 



Have heard of persons being injured by this poison, but, of course, as it is a poison it 

 should be used with proper caution or injury will happen. Have never heard of any 



