THE FARMERS REGISTER. 



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Cape Fear, Readily distinguished from other 

 rushes by its three cornered stetii. 



42. Seiaria glauca. ff'ild timothy, and hotlh 

 brush, of Yirgirua. Foxtail grass, oC Peniieyl- 



field ; and, hke all oifiernight flies, will rush to 

 ihe light and in it. I have caught these flies and 

 pulled them asunder ; and [ suppose one, fly will, 

 rom appearance, contain (rom ihree to five hun- 



vania and Massachusetts, very common in waste | dred eggs. I have also caught iheni when they 

 fields. j had but a few, and were small and eicUly, and they 



43. Spariina glabra. Marsh grass. An in- I then soon die. From ihe fact that the worm 

 hatdtant of the salt marshes oi ihe whole sea j destroys so much of ihe square and boll, I have 

 coast. no doubt that a great saving may be had by 



44. Tripsacum dactyloiiles. Gama grass. ; worming the plant, ;ind detecting them at all ages 

 This grass, as far as J can ascertain, is now deem- and sizHg. This pltni [ adopted, and t am sure 



ed a nuisance 



45. Triticum repens. JVheat grass, and quake 

 grass, in JMassachuseits. Couch grass, and quildi 

 grass, in Great Britain. Mr. Pleasanis sent me 

 this fi-om Virginia, but wiihout a pnpular name. 



46. Vilfa Indica. Black seed grass oi ihe Caro- 

 linas. H^ire grass of Georgia, according to 

 Muhlenberg. 



47. Zizania aqualica. JFild rice in North 

 Carolina, Mossarhupeiis, and aloiiw the great 

 northern lakes. Water oats in Massachusetts. 



48. Z. miliacea. Wild oats [a the lower part 

 of North Carolina. 



M. A. Curtis. 



WORM IN COTTON. 



From the Milledgeville Recoriler. 



Greene County, Ga. Oct. 8, 1841. 

 I have made some experiments and discovery 

 of the worm in cotton. I have hearJ many per- 

 sons undertake to describe how the worn s were 



generated, but no description seemed to saiisly j much earlier age, and is less liable to ihe ravages 

 me. My crop having a great quaniity of worm of the worm, which appears from the 20ih to ihe 

 in it this year, I was frequently in it and could see j last of August. As the worm season is over, I 

 a fly resembling the fly from a silk-worm. It was advise the reader to take care of this paper, and 

 rather smaller and more yellow. One evening, judge for himself nexi crop. 



iVcm a C'dculalion that I made one day's work, that 

 I must have destroyed (rom forty lo fifty thousand 

 worms in the space of filieen days. These worms 

 destroy more coiton when small than they do 

 when they are nearly grown, because they mostly 

 prey upon the grown bolls, and frequently they 

 remain in one boll until they get ready to go into 

 the earth. 



[ will describe ihe fly as nearly as I can : It is 

 about three-fourths of an inch long, and of a light 

 brown yellow — winirs spread out wide, pitched in a 

 leaf, and flies awkwardly when in the act of lay- 

 ing its egijs — has a small green head, and just be- 

 tween the socket of its wings is of a brown red, 

 and has a bill half an inch long, of a hard wiry 

 substance, which it carries in a coil. 



I presume some may conclude that stubble or 

 corn land will not be attacked by them ; but this 

 iDakes no difference, as the fly can travel very 

 rapidly and will soon go to any part of the 

 plantation. 



Coiton should be planted early, and thinned out 

 to 12 or 14 inches, and one stalk. This will give 

 the cotton air, and it will form its squares at a 



between sun-set and dark, I lollowed one of these 

 flies laying iis eggs. Every branch of cotton 

 where the fly made a depositeof its eggs, I gather- 

 ed and put in a glass jar, from which the worm 

 hatched ; and while very small I put it into a small 

 coiton square, and it opened in a short time, Ii 

 passed fi-om one square to another, producinir ihe 

 eameeffect on the cotton as those in the field where 

 1 gathered the eggs. 



These worms, after getting to a certain stage of 

 life, leave the cotton bolls and burrow in the 

 ground ; but how long they remain in that state, I 

 am unable to say ; but beyond all doubt they are 

 translbrmed into a fly, and this fly lays the eggs ; 

 and as soon as the fly depositee all iis effgs, it dies 

 similar to the silk-wo'-m fly. How the worm first 

 made its appearmce last year, I am unable to 



AuGUSTiN Greene. 



A CHAPTER ON CATS. 



From tlie Maine Farmer. 

 There has been considerable excitement within 

 a fortnight in this neighborhood, caused by the ap- 

 pearance of a large animal of the cat species, in 

 Sidney. Messrs. Sumner Dyer, Edward Davis, 

 Zaccheus S. Purringion, and C. Reynolds, being 

 out on a fox hunting excursion, discovered a large 

 track on the light snow, which they thought was 

 made by a loup ccrvier {louservee.^ They 

 pursued on lor a while, when, what should they 

 find in a thicket, but an enormous panther. They 

 were not well equipped (or such game, having but 



determine, but am inclined to the belief that the} 



fly was theorigiu.il last year, and was brought into j two or three balls with them — but they concluded 

 existence from some unknown process. j to give him what they had on hand. After a 



One of these worms will destroy one half of the i severe battle in which the vermint was well 

 squares and bolls in a stalk of cotton, and frequent- | ^^ peppered''^ with bails, shot and slugs, they suc- 

 ly more, betbre they burrow in the earth. Should [ ceeded in breaking his back, and were thereby 

 this worm remain in the ground during the winter, enabled to go up and knock him on the head, 

 it no doubt would be a good plan in the dead of I He was brought here last week for exhibition, 

 winter to break op the bed in which the coiton ; and we were employed to exercise a little " taxi- 

 grew, so that I hey will freeze. They seldom : dermy^'' by way of taking oH' his jacket and stuff- 

 enter the ground in the middle of the row. The ] ing it, secundum artem. To be serious, however, 

 number of worms may be reduced by making i we found the animal to be what is generally called 

 lights in diflferent parts of the fieldjust at twilight, ' a panther. Common consent has applied this 

 at which lime the fly commences flying over the I name to certain animals of the cat genus, bearing 



