REPORT OF JUDGE W. J. JONES. 
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crops would be iii a great measnre protected, and this will be the speediest and surest 
method of destroying the mother of Aletia. It cannot now be doubted that without 
some more potent means of destruction than those hitherto relied on, to be very gen- 
erally if not universally resorted to, these enemies of the cotton plant will become 
as numerous as the vast flights of locusts that descend only at long intervals to devour 
every form of tender plant life. But if suitable lamps, of simple and easy construc- 
tion, supplied with a cheap burning fluid of convenient access, were supplied, I be- 
lieve they would be very generally used, if they could receive the indorsement of the 
eminent scientist. It is needless for me to designate the man, as there is but one 
name so prominent in all tho beneficence of all his skilled labors that none can mis- 
take his identity. If, then, the Government of the United States could be prompted 
to assist in the movement, as they would or could in famine or pestilence, we should 
soon know Aletia onlv through its simple but exact history, recorded in your Bulletin 
No. 3. 
The method here so urgently recommended is simple, inexpensive, and in no wise 
prejudicial to health nor endangering life. It is no longer a matter of theory, but a 
practical test so largely indorsed by public sentiment that none will be found to gain- 
say its full and faithful promise. 
AH the planters say, " Give us brilliant and elevated lights with resorbent reservoirs 
and the earliest flight of the female moth will be attracted to these lights, where it 
will bo sure to meet destruction." 
My views, thus presented, are largely influenced by the certain hypothesis that 
the moths remain in the extreme Southern cotton belt during the winter, and 
that the chrysalids do not seek an underground hibernation, and hence the main 
impediment to this mode of warfare is removed. But should a few of the breeders 
escape tho traps set to catch them there will be less difficulty in reaching them with 
the poisons. If the aid suggested could only be made a free offering to the poor, the 
more independent class of planters would supply themselves and would willingly aid in 
the work of destruction. Cotton-planting can never be made a thorough success till 
this natural enemy of the plant is entirelv subdued or rendered less aggressive by 
thinning out its numbers in some more eflective and less expensive manner than is 
effected by the poisonous compounds. 
Respectfully submitted. 
WILLIAM J. JONES. 
Prof. C. V. Rilky. 
