STATISTICS OF LOSSES CAUSED BY ALETIA. 3 



commencing witli Georgia at 16 per cent., or 16 bales out of every 100 of 

 an average crop for fifteen years, and ending with Texas at 28 per cent. 

 In the northern portion of the belt the averages are low, ranging from 

 6 to 8 per cent, for the same period j while in many parts of it, and 

 notably in Korth Carolina, the worm appears so late as to generally do 

 more good than harm by removing the luxuriant top foliage, and thus 

 admitting the sun to the lower bolls and hastening their maturity. 



The following table shows the amount of loss in bales and dollars for 

 each State in a year of severe visitation : 





Per cent of loss 

 for worst years. 



Crop. 



Losses. 



Money loss. 



state. 



1 



1 



1 

 1 



1 



1' 



Pi 



Average nnmber 

 of bales for worst 

 years, in round 

 numbers. 



it 

 1^ 



Florida 







24 



16.5 



17.8 



17 



20 



28 



05 



05 



08 



49, 700 



474, 600 

 536, 700 

 706, 000 

 438, 700 

 525, 000 

 224, 500 

 147, 000 

 347, 000 



12,000 

 78, 422 

 95, 790 



123, 070 

 89, 740 



148, 125 



11, 225 



8,365 



27, 760 



600, 000 



Grcor gia -.. 



25.1 



25.2 

 24 



15 



12.5 



15 



3, 912, 000 

 4, 789, 000 

 6, 150, 000 

 4, 437, 000 





Miflsisainni 



XiOuisiana ............................. ...... 



Texas .... 



35 



20 



7, 406, 000 

 560, 000 



Snuth <~'ftr"Hna .. . 









418, 000 

 1,380,000 



ArVftTiRaH ... . . ...... 





























Totala 







17.2 



3,449,200 



594, 497 



29, 711, 000 









The terms '< highest" and "lowest" in this table do not refer to the 

 greatest amount of injury or to the reverse inflicted in individual locali- 

 ties, but to a general average for the principal counties of heaviest pro- 

 duction on the one hand, and the average for the remainder of the 

 State on the other. These figures are derived from the statistical reports 

 of the Department of Agriculture. The average for the State as a 

 whole appears in the third column, made up from the same sources. 

 The fourth column is made up from reports of the cotton movement. 

 The table shows a possible loss, in years of great prevalence, of about 

 $30,000,000. On this basis the average annual loss may safely be put 

 down at about $15,000,000 for all the cotton States for the fourteen 

 years following the war. 



There have been two previous estimates of the loss occasioned by the 

 worm, both of which bear out this table. In the report of the Statis- 

 tician of the Department of Agriculture for 1877 the loss by the cotton 

 worm was estimated for that year at $15,000,000, the greater portion 

 of the loss being suffered in Texas, though the damage was considerable 

 as far east as Alabama. Notwithstanding this loss the year was one 

 of unusual harvest, hence this estimate bears out well our estimate of 

 the average annual loss. In the report of the Entomologist in the an- 

 nual report of this Department for 1873 (p. 164) there appears a general 



