COTTON CULTURE. 



Missouri, north of 38, nearly as much has been grown in 

 a fortunate season. 



CHAPTER II. 



ENEMIES AND DISEASES OF COTTON. 



There are five small animals or insects that afflict, and 

 sometimes wholly destroy, the cotton plant. These are 

 the cotton louse, the cut worm, the cotton worm or moth, 

 (for the worm is the offspring of the moth,) the army 



Fig. 14. THE COTTON LOUSE. 



DESCRIPTION : a, young shoot of cotton plant, with lice of natural size ; &, 

 winged lice, magnified ; c, wingless lice, magnified. 



worm, and the boll worm. We are indebted to Prof. 

 Townend Glover, of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, for the opportunity to copy from his original 



