The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-06-08
How to Poison W66VlIS
Capt. B. W. MdrstOn Tells What
is the Best Method.

son intelligently will be amply re-
If all would poison in
diligently it would he much bet
ter. L predict that another year
Of poisoning of the weevil will be
almost universal, because enough |
will have succeeded this year to
make good"
The editor of the Colfax Chron-
icle addressed letter to Capt.
Marston at his home at East Point,
June 81, asking him to tell in
few words what he says is the
Intelligent" and most effective
way to poison young cotton with
Paris green to kill boil weevils-
asking how often, how much, the
method and when applied.
To this letter Capt. Marston re-
plies, inclosing printed circular
giving his rules for poisoning the
weevil, which are as follows:
RULES FOR POISONING THE wEEvIL.
/. If possible, land the weevil
is in sight) poison before the cot
ton is chopped out, say two days,
and poison all cotton in the field.
2. If poison washes off and the
weevil appears again, poison again.
3. Take hoe handle about six
feet long and slip it into the bot
tom of thick sock or sack, made
of Coz. Osnaburgs, or any cloth
not too thick or too thin. Put in
about one pound of Paris green,
dry; tie the sock or sack at top
around the hoe handle as far up rs
it will reach, say one foot, and the
machine is made for poisoning one
row at a time. The little cotton
can be better poisoned one row at a
time than by carrying many rows.
A stick to tap the hoe handle as
one walks along the row is good.
Just put on enough to see a light
dust falling over the cotton, say
! to ] pound per acre, just as one
would poison for the potato bug,
and every hibernate1 weevil in the
field will be killed. AS the cotton
grows more poison can be used.
A. Use only the best govern.
ment inspected Paris green, OF
some better poison, if any is to he
had. | know of none better.
5. Don't get the sacks wet will
dew or anything, because dry pois
on won't sift through wet sack.
6. If the wind is bad, a ligh
"box," say about three feet long
and open at both ends and the bot
tom, may he used as a drag owe
the cotton, with the poison sns
pended in it, so as just to strlk
the cotton. We have found it hes
to use a sleeve made of Coz. Osna
burgs, with light stick inserte
through it, with the open ends tie
around the stick and suspend 1t |
and under the top of the "box,' S
that it will shake against bot
sides and also touch the cottoi
This gives a uniform applicatlo
of the poison. As the cotto
grows and it is necessary to polso
again planks can be added to ti
bottom of the "box" and thus rals
il 10 The heighth of the cotton.
double "box" can be made to carr
two rows at time drawn by OF
horse and rider, going in trot, an
thereby poison about twenty-h'
acres per day.
Z. A hay rake can be used
suspending three sacks" (sleeve
under it, on light pole, betwe'
the wheels, and an old piece
leather or gin band can be nail'
to each end of the pole SO that
will rub the spokes of the whee
and in this way shake the Pal
green evenly over the cotton.
wind is blowing wagon cover c
he thrown over the rake, and let
drag behind over the cotton,
protect the driver and keep I
wind from scattering the poison
8. Shaking Paris green Owe
field when the wind is high
child's play. and it will not rea
the boil weevil. 1t may some.in
scare the caterpillar away, wi
used by some "agriculturalis
but when a farmer" uses 1t
must be done right, in order
reach the boil weevil, and the |
worm, and the caterpillar.
b. w. MANSION