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oats the following year. In August, when the moth 

 emerges from the ground, she may find neither corn nor 

 cotton within a mile upon which to deposit eggs. Her 

 flight is low, and her days are brief. The chances arc, 

 that she will perish before reaching either of the plants 

 upon which she and her young feed. 



The exposure of a mixture of molasses and cobalt, with 

 a little vinegar, at the edge of a cotton field, and nearest 

 the corn from which they migrate in the latter part of 

 July and first of August, would probably attract and 

 poison large numbers of them. By carefully noting the 

 time of their moving upon the cotton, it might be effective 

 to send out early in the morning the whole force with pad- 

 dles or little hand-nets, to walk abreast down the rows 

 next the corn, and catch and kill them as they fly up. 

 Where corn and cotton are adjacent, the moth settles in 

 the first rows of cotton as soon as she leaves the other 

 plant, and by patroling these rows every morning, the 

 most of the invaders might be destroyed. 



Another mode of overcoming the difficulty, would be to 

 provide other and more attractive pasturage for them 

 than the cotton boll. This could be done by having a 

 small field of late corn next the cotton, that would be in 

 silk as late as the latter part of August or the first of 

 September. The worm would not be likely to leave the 

 corn for the cotton, until it was too late for him to work 

 much injury. 



The same might perhaps be better attained by having 

 rows of late corn, at intervals of twenty or thirty feet, 

 through the cotton-field. This arrangement would be sure 

 to draw all the moths, late in the season, .to that field. 

 Their cocoons would be buried in the soil, and by turning 

 out that field to rest for a year or two, and transferring 

 the crops to some distance, the race of Boll-worms on that 

 place might be exterminated. 



The diseases of cotton are not generally as destructive 



