4 REPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



statement, also furnished by the statistician, which placed the amount 

 of damage at possibly 500,000 bales in years of insect prevalence. This, 

 at $50 a bale, would be $25,000,000, also closely approximating our es- 

 timate of the damage in worst years. The estimate of price at $50 a 

 bale for the fourteen years succeeding the war is low rather than high, 

 as the plantation prices between 18G0 and 1870 ranged from $180 down 

 to $G0. 



That the damage was equally great before the war there is no reason 

 to doubt, for while severe visitations have, perhaps, been more frequent 

 since that time, the injury has been greatly diminished by the use of 

 Paris green and other arsenical poisons since the year 1873. 



The subsidiary table of losses from the worm for the year 1881 illus- 

 trates this point quite well : 



Loi8 of cotton hy worms as reported in 1881. 



States. 



.o2 



Loss. 



Total, per 

 census. 



Lou. 



Alabama 



Arkansaa , 



Florida 



Creorpria 



Louisiana , 



Mississippi 



Missouri , 



Korth Carolina 

 South Carolina 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Virginia.. 



BaUg. 

 51, 349 

 15, 055 

 4,077 

 20, 658 

 29, frt9 

 38, 111 



204 



10, 233 



1,374 



22,472 



Bale$. 

 509,616 

 407. 342 



29,623 

 582, 332 

 273, 356 

 683, 763 



16, 135 

 346, 931 

 413, 943 

 146, 150 

 661, 778 

 7,800 



Per cent 

 10.1 



S.7 

 13.8 



3.0 

 10.8 



0.5 



0.1 



2.5 



0.9 







Total 



193,482 



3,878,7e 



Total cotton produced, 6,589,000 bales; total cotton prodncefl In counties reportinjj -worra, 3.878,786 

 bales, or 58.9 of the ir^hole crop. This woxild leave on the l>ttF.is of the whole crop a loss of only 2.9-f-%, 

 or a money loss of $8,706,690, calculating on $45 the bale, or $9,t;74, 100 ou the former bivsis of $30. We 

 ■would especially call attention to the great roduction in the percentage of loss from 17.2 to 2.9+. 



