The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-07

Prices.
DIRECTIONS FOR USING MARS.
TONS BOIL WEEVIL
DESTROYER.
Dissolve "a pound in one gallon Of
water, and stir it we'll Cor shake it, if ii
closed vesseD every time before filling
the pump (nearly fully as it will settle
more or less; or take one of the COM
pounded packages, with 3 ounces each
price 25c retail, AMI put it in one of the
11-2 pint pumps, used by me, nearly
fill with water, shake well, and keep il
shook up, not allowing it to settle, as
directed above, AND GO TO WORK
using about half stroke of pump one
time, into the top bud of the young cot
ton as soon, OR A LITTLE SOONER
than it begins to bunch to take on
squares. 1t is better to be too soon than
too late. Use it 4S hours before a rain.
If washed off use it again. If necessary
use it again. SOMETIMES ONE APP
PLICATION IS ENOUGH TO SAVE
A CROP. If there is wind to bother,
spray against the wind, not with it.
NOTE.
Accustom the hands to use the pump
little while with water alone before
the poison is put in. Keep the pumps
well creased to make them work easy
and to keep the packing from wearing
out A child can use the pump. One
of the best hands in my field last year
was 12-year-old girl.
A hand can go over from four to six
acres per day easily. There should be
one pump for every working man and
woman and child on the plantation as
they only cost SOC retail, so that the
poisoning can be done as fast, and get
done as soon, as possible, Or right after
a rain. If you have any doubts about
how to work, write, come or send some
one to see me. If the winter has been
very mild / think it advisable to run
over and spray the young cotton forty
eight hours before it is chopped out.
This is the safest plan anyhow, because
the rains may interfere later, and be-
cause some of the laying weevils may
have ceased to eat and drink Then
spray again later as needed.
l give the boil weevil no chance. It
will do little good to spray after the
cotton has taken on grown squares, but
if the cotton has been neglected don't
hesitate to do it, because it costs so lit
tie. If any punctured squares should
appear later, by some few of the weevils
through careless work, pick
them and any .weevi1s which may be
seen and burn or kill them
Last year in my best poisoned cotton
not punctured square appeared until
the 5th of August, and had the sur
country been as we'll poisoned
there would have been none left. II
made. one bale per acre on this cotton in
several places, against one-tenth to one
fourth bale on as good or better looking
cotton adjacent not poisoned Ask
questions by mail if undecided or both
ered, inclosing stamp for reply
POISONING THE WEEVIL ON Al
LARGE SCALE.
1t is best to mix in barrel, using ga
pound of the mixture to each gallon |
If water, and have a man on wagon
n the field with some extra pumps to |
Ieep them filled and creased, so as not
o lose any time, and he can keep up |
IN the turning row with the hands. In
Iced in poisoning plantation it is best !
o put every hand on the place in one
quad to see that they do their work |
light, and keep their pumps we'll Shook
'p' all the time and see that they don't
kip any cotton. Some of them get
areless and allow the feed pipe to
choke up" when it will not work.
sorewarned is forearmed. If every cot
on planter in the South will use this
emedy and use it right, the boil weevil
an be- and will be conquered, just as
he potato bug and cotton caterpiller
ave been practically exterminated.
TESTIMONIALS.
Mr.. J. M. Purcell of Lockhart, Texas
oisoned four acres of cotton in the CEN
er of 2o-acre field, all conditions be-
ng alike otherwise, and picked 12ool
ounds Of cotton off the four acres
oisoned and did not get boil off the
alance of the field (16 acres) not pois-
ned.
D. S. Sims of East Point, La, pois-
ned one-half of cut of cotton in low
lack stiff land and picked 900 pounds
er acre off the side poisoned before he
OF boil off the side not poisoned. He
lade I-2 bale per acre on the side pois-
ned and only Ia on the side not pois-
ned. He swore to these facts before the
rop Pest Commission of louisiana
nd there is not better man in Louis
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