The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-06-25
FARMERANDPLANTE
THE NEW BOIL WEEVIL.
How Poison IL Applied and The HELM
II win Give In nestr"Sing
the Pest.

The boil weeyil is Eow being poison,
ed successfully and cheaply by farmer.
in Fayette and Caldwell counties. r
W. Marston. of Louisiana, the man who
first used Paris green in this country
TO kill the army worm, is leading in the
work. Poisoned cotton has no live
weeyil left on 1t, but there are dead
ones found under it.
Poisoning is simple, Paris green OF
guaranteed purity is put in a sacE
made Of eight ounce osnahnrE, and
this sack tied to a stick. is shaken over
the young cotton having wcey,l on 1t
1t must he done when the wind is no,
blowing. The weayils are hungry 70:
fresh food after a winter Of fasting
and they feed upon the tender bud
and the stems Of young leaves until
the squares come. These leaf parts
are easily busted with poison and will
kill the weeyils within q hours after
eating. We watched, under a micro
scope, a weeyil husily gon.iug a
trench with his oil. He was working
on a tender leaf stem and bent to the
work most earnestly, succeed .ug in
cutting a hole one-half inch long and
one sixteenth deep and wide Dead
weeyils may continue to be found for
four Of six days after the cotton has
been properly poisoned. The cotton
should be freshly poisoned every week
or oftener. until fresh weevils quit
coming TO the cotton or the plants be-
gin to form squares. When the squares
begin to form, poison will have little or
no effect.
Apply enough green to show plainly
IN the foliage, 1t should be put on
when no wind is blowing. Poisoning
early in the season means that the
farmers a reduce the winter broods
now coming from their hiding places,
and protect cotton to a large extent.
This adds a new step to the tested
Cultural methods" 1t may entirely
take the place Of picking up squares n
picking off the weeyil which has proved
so expensive. Early poisoning Will en-
able the cotton to mature ahead of the
great swarm OF late summer weevils
especially if given thorough midsum-
mer cultivation. Paris green may not
be the best poison, but It is certainly
reliable. The entire method is cheap
and farmers a put it into use at
once, On small cotton a half pound of
Paris green per acre is sufficient, This
does o. solve the bell weevil problem,
but it will help to solve it.
With long winters in north Texas
and Paris green to kill a part Of the
first crop appearing in spring, we have
a new opportunity to fight the weeyils
and run them out of north Texas.
Cotton growers must wake up to this
new situation and make the fight. The
United States government appropriat-
ed a quarter Of a million dollars with
which to fight the weevil. The gov
eminent agents are actively at work,
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