The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-01-30
Capt. MdrstOn's Pets
Red River Planter Shows How Poi
son Works on the Boil
WcCvil
In State OF AlbSrnatlon =

Times met Senator b. w. Marftoi,
of Red River parish, and asked
whether be bad any fresh news
about the "bibernator" - boil
weevil. Senator Marston said: |.
Il can tell you one that reads
like an Arabian Nights story"
Quoting him as closely as possible,
he related: "Yon know IN an in-
terview last week / said one OF the
greatest and most objectionable
errors the entomologists had fallen
into was that the boil weevil hiber-
mated. By the by. l see that the
Picayune aud Monroe News have
copied that interview. l wrote
Mrs. Marston early in the week to
plant for me few cotton seed III
some tin boxes and put them III
the chicken incubator and try and
sprout them, which, she did.
knew I had a lot of "hibernated"
weevils put away, SO ! got a lively |
fellow, fiat and ssucy." put up on
the 10Th day of last November. as
had been marked on the box. So
YOU see he had been two months
without food or water. l put him
under glass tumbler and he ran
about in it almost as lively rs a
house fly. How is that for hiber-
uation?
II then took one of my little
cotton plants and dipped it in
some poison / had prepared and
put it under the tumbler with the
weevil. He Immediately went for
it like hungry pig would for a
, head of cabbage. I then took an
other "hibernated" weevil out OF a
, box, labeled October 20, which had
been also without food or water
nearly three months, and put II
: under another tumbler, dipped one
of the little cotton plants in water
r and gave it to him. which also pro-
ceeded to devour it.
4. "Just then the breakfast bel
o rang, aud I left my pets to them
selves. About 10 o'clock l wen
= up to see how they were gethnl
J.. ON, and the poisoned one was lay
o ing on his back with his legs al
$ stretched out, and l thought it wa
dead. The one not poisoned wa
eating away like all forty. l GALES
r. Mrs. Marston to come up and loo
Y at them, and turning the poisone'
'r one over, he got up and tried t
'r crawl off, butt was evidently yer
= sick. About IL o'clock it agai
" turned over on it's back. apparent
8. " dead. / was afraid to distur
err it.
e about 2 o'clock John Crichto
rs my nearest neighbor, called. M
:, Crichton is stronger aelvocste
ye poisoning the weevil than | r1n
ur took him up to see my bve wessy
ne eat and drink, and my "dead wees
no H." dead. By George! he was U
60 60 again, but SO sick he could N
r. climb the side of q saucer, and IL
it weevil not poisoned was quiet
tly resting in the top of au inverts
ed tumbler. When Iopened them
las this morning, the poisoned one vi
in surely dead, and the other as Ii
no as cricket.
for Come down to my Office, II
nd- Commerce street, over Ardis 4 G.
~ aud see them, both dead and alive
thr To the question as to whether
Of had opened an Office in Shrevepo
my he said he had because he had I
no. bis correspondence had grown
I =, large. He also said he was me'
i ing with most gratifying succe
est in organizing Texas, Louisial
~ed Arkansas and Mississippi for I
her tight be was making this "
'or- against the weevil. He said
nj had one letter from a man in A