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was taken, but the loss was by no means general. In Wayne County, 
Xorth Carolina, strange to say, the worms came in August and injured 
the crop to a slight extent. South Carolina suffered no loss. In Geor- 
gia, the southern tier and the coast counties were damaged quite badly, 
but the remainder of the State escaped. 
Of the northern counties in Florida, Bradford, L con, and Putnam 
Sustained quite severe losses, while Santa Rosa, Jackson, and Duval 
■offered none. In Alabama considerable damage was done to a few 
counties, as Wilcox, Macon, Dallas, and Greene. In Mississippi and 
Louisiana, the loss was insignificant. .In Polk, Blanco, Matagorda 
and Goliad Counties, Texas, the cotton was badly eaten, but the remain- 
der of the*State was comparatively exempt. 
The worms, instead of increasing in numbers in 1870, as should have 
been the case according to the rule just mentioned, were decidedly fewer 
and less destructive than in 1800, the same causes operating to produce 
this result, as 1870 proved to be a year of severe and long-continued 
drought. In North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala 
bama, and Mississippi the worms were found, but almost no damage 
resulted. Isolated counties in Texas Buffered, while in Louisiana by 
far the greatest damage of the year was done. Rapides, Avoyelles, 
East Feliciana, Tensas, and Jackson Parishes each sustained a loss of 
from 5 to 20 per cent. 
In 1871 the increase again commenced, the principal damage, as in 
the previous year, being done in Louisiana. North and South Carolina 
sustained no loss, and Georgia suffered but slightly. In Florida the 
crop was so severely injured by heavy storms that the worms were 
hardly noticed. In Alabama and Mississippi there was a decided in- 
crease in the number of worms. In Louisiana the crop as a whole was 
very badly damaged, though in many parishes the loss was slight. The 
distribution of the points of heaviest injury was strange and difficult to 
explain. Great loss was sustained in Iberia, Saint Landry, Washing- 
ton, Avoyelles, and Caddo; less in Fast and West Feliciana, Kapides, 
and Richland; while in Tangipahoa, Madison, Tensas, Red River, Clai- 
borne, Ouachita, and Morehouse but few worms were to be found. In 
Texas the worms were widely distributed, but in only a few counties was 
even the top crop (representing 5 per cent, or a little more) taken. In 
Lafayette County, Arkansas, the late-appearing caterpillars damaged 
the crop to some extent. 
In 1S72 occurred another and greater increase in the damage done 
by the worms. In fact, the loss this year was so great that 1872 is en- 
titled to be ranked as one of the years of general loss by the side of 
1804, 1825, 184G, 1SG8, and 1873, although considerably inferior to the 
last named and possibly to the early ones. The caterpillars appeared 
early in June in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. In Texas the amount 
of damage was not great. In Louisiana it fully equaled that of the 
previous year. Tangipahoa, Marion, Concordia, Kapides, Saint Landry, 
