14 
Table VIII. — Early and late cotton compared. 
LATE COTTON. 
Plant. 
Bored. 
Other 
causes. 
Good 
bolls. 
Total. 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
Total . . . 
12 
14 
6 
10 
6 
2.1 
7 
12 
] 
12 
18 
21 
24 
23 
13 
12 
21 
44 
30 
3 
3 
5 
2 
76 
13 78 
167 
EARLY COTTON. 
14 
3 
2 
14 
19 
15 
2 
3 
21 
26 
16 
1 
4 
22 
27 
17 
Total . . . 

9 
33 
42 
6 
18 
90 
114 
Tables VI and VII exhibit data obtained while on a trip through the 
part of Texas which was worst infested by the Boll Worm. The figures 
for Table VI were noted at Mesquite, August 24, and for Table VII the 
facts were obtained at Arlington, August 27. In Table VI plants 1 to 
6 inclusive were in the same field and stood consecutively in a row; 
plants 7 to 13 inclusive in a second field, consecutively as before ; while 
plants 14 to 17 inclusive were taken at random in a third field. Plants 
7 to 13 were in a field of late cotton, still blooming profusely at the time 
of observation; 14 to 17 were in one of early cotton in which all the 
fruit had set and which, therefore, contained but few blossoms at that 
time. These data are compiled separately in Table VIII for the pur- 
pose of comparison. It presents some significant facts concerning the 
question of early and late cotton in Boll Worm districts. Thus, of a 
total of 167 bolls of the late cotton, 76, or 45.5 per cent, had been injured 
by the Boll Worm; of a total of 114 bolls of early cotton, only 6, or 5.2 
per cent, were injured. Estimating the difference upon the basis of 
the normal average, we have the following result: The seven plants of 
late cotton averaged 11.14 bolls per plant, and the four plants of early 
cotton 22 per plant, 22 being the normal average arrived at m Table 
V. The late cotton therefore shows a loss of 50.6 per cent, while the 
early cotton shows no real loss. This may be taken as an extreme case, 
but the general principle remains that late cotton receives by far the 
greater portion of the Boll Worm attack, virtually protecting the early 
cotton fields about it. 
