STATISTICS OF LOSSES CAUSED BY ALETIA. 
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commencing with Georgia at 1G per cent., or 1G 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. 
5 to 8 per cent, for the same period; while in many parts of it, and 
notably in North 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 bollfl and hastening their maturity. 
The following table shows the amount of loss iu bales and dollars for 
each State in a year of severe visitation : 
State. 
Per cent, of lows 
for worst years. 
Crop. 
Losses. 
Money loss. 
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16.5 
17.8 
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28 
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49. 700 
474. 000 
:<in. Too 
700. 000 
4.1.-. 700 
525, 000 
2. ft, ft 
147.000 
347, 000 
12, COO 
78. 422 
95, 790 
12:$, 070 
80, 740 
148, 125 
11.225 
8, 305 
27, 700 
600. 000 
3,912,000 
4,780, 01 
6, 150. 000 
4, 4::7. ooo 
7, 400, 000 
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4 IK, 000 
1, 380, 000 
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15 
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85 
20 
Totals 
17.2 
3, 449. 200 
594, 497 
29,711,000 
The terms ''highest* and u lowest 77 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 lor the principal counties of heaviest pro- 
duction on tho one hand, and the average for the remainder of the 
State on the other. These figures arc derived from t he 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 tho 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 tho cotton States for the fourteen 
years following the WBSt. 
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. 1G1) there appears a general 
