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Avorm, when applied according to printed instructions, pasted upon each 

 package. 



The success of this preparation is due to Messrs. Preston and Robira, 

 druggists of the city of Galveston, to whom all honor and credit should be 

 accorded for their efforts in this direction. 



All that remains to be accomplished to cheapen and to bring their prepa- 

 ration into general requisition is the discovery of a more suitable mechan- 

 ical contrivance to lessen the expense of its application. The hand pumps, 

 sold with their worm poison, can be successfully used, but require too 

 large an expenditure for labor. Surely through the inventive genius of 

 some of our master mechanics or some skillful planter, such a contrivance 

 will not be long wanting, if not already in the artificer's hands. 



Respectfully, 



WILLIAM I. JONES. 



I here insert Mr. J. V. Tevier's letter, a cotton planter of thirty seven 

 years standing. 



ASHWOOD, La., Fed. 20, 1878. 



J. Curtis Waldo, Esq. 



Dear Sir,— Your two favors to hand : they were delayed on the route. 

 I will cheerfully comply with your request, and give you such information 

 as I can in regard to the worms, etc., and subject to such corrections in the 

 style of writing as you may think proper. 



I have been planting cotton ihirty-seven year?. My first recollection of 

 the appearance of the worms was in 1844, when they appeared in this 

 parish, Tensas, and done a great deal of damage to the cotton crop. They 

 also appeared here in 1846 and were very destructive. They are more apt 

 to appear in warm wet seasons, and are not so destructive in dry hot 

 weather. The first indication of their coming is the flies, which are to be 

 seen in the cotton fields. 



I have always been under the impression that the best preventive was to 

 clear up the land well, and to cut and burn the stalks, for I am satisfied 

 that their germs are left in the stalks of the cotton, and by placing lights 

 in cotton fields of nights, about fifty or sixty yards apart, beginning about 

 the middle of August, and continuing to the first of October, would in my 

 opinion exterminate the flies. The flies congregate about a light of nights, 

 and their destruction makes the coming worm an impossibility. 



I have never used arsenic or Paris green to destroy the worms, cannot 

 therefore state as regard their efficacy. 



Yours, very respectfully, 



J. V. TEVIER. 



MiLTENBURG PLANTATION, BAYOU RaPIDES, DeC. 20th, 1877. 



Mr. J. Curtis Waldo, Neiv Orleans: 



Pear Sir, — Your communication of the first instant came duly to hand 



