The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-30
THE BOIL WEEVIL.
Shreveport, La, Dec. 20, 1909.

Newelrs letter after six years, going on
seven, in harness, quote DR.. Howard,
chief of the Entos, whose paper l took
to Texas with me in 1904: "It has been
found to be impossible to poison the
weevil in the field. 1t is hard shelled,
tough little creature, very resistant to
the action of contact poisons, and in an
extraordinary degree resistant % inter
nal poisons, such as arsenic in its diff
ferent forms. Its larva lives hidden
within the square or bell where pois-
ons can not reach it"
The people of Texas in 1908 had
abandoned all effort to try and poison
the weeviI, before went down there.
After my return from Texas, quoting
Mr. Newell "after the $4,000 reward"
as if that was sin, (but | got the most
liberal patronage in 1909. for reward
all right, the great convention in
Shreveport was held, and DR.. Knapp
on page o5 of the Report said: Il be-
lieved it would be possible, as Dr. How
ard also thought, to poison the boil
weevil, on the young cotton. Later it
was found impossible" X 1t is a
cold fact-Does Paris green destroy the
boil weevil? or. Does it not? l say it
does not, and | can prove it"
Mr.. Newell as late as 1908, for read
from his report upon the floor of the
Senate at that time (and only one mem
Der of the Senate, Lieutenant Governor
Lambremont, had been able to construe
it's meaning,) said, in writing of the
boil worm, mind you: 1t must not be
confounded with the boil weevil, which
deposits its larvae within the square
where poisons can not reach it. have
not his exact words. Now, forsooth
If he has not reached the larva, he has
reached the weevil, and is Cooked
up discoverer per Sc.
But, Oh Lordy hold your nose and
read He says: Neither the writer,
nor any other entomologist, has ever
denied that Paris green would kill boil
weeviIs." 1T is sufficient in this
connectioB to say that gagsain Marston
in his persistent advocacy of Paris
green and Paris green only, (the italics
are my OWN has simply been turning
the farmer over to the mercy of few
manufacturers, We have even
been informed that the manufacturers
defer setting the price each spring until
they find out what Marston is going to
do. Was ever such rot written?
suppose the arsenate of lead people are
not in the trust? And to oblige Mr.
Newell and the dear farmers they will
make onehalf- the price of pure Paris
green-cheap substitutes are like cheap
men, for sale cheapl
A car load of literature has been
written on this question, but what | OBJ
ject to is: almost every newspaper pub
fishes Mr.. Newell's "newellisms." If l
could advise him he would quit the little
eye glasses of the entos and report to
any of the Central American presidents
to write their pronunciamentos, and his
fortune would be made. How any in
telligent American newspaper can give
him a monopoly in airing his informa
ton surpasses ali understanding.
But to the italics above "and Paris
green only" Last season / used $1,000
worth of strychnine, some of it costaing
me over $40 per pound, and many and
many thousand pounds of sugar, and a
paste and "desolvent' in my patented
Boil Weevil Destroyer and covered sue
cessfully about 100000 acres of cotton,
which made from rs to 100 per cent
more cotton than like fields not pois-
oned The orders are coming in daily
from four States, and Mr.. Newelps
white powder is not in it. The peo-
pie despise cheap substitute, now
nearly seven years behind the times.
The ,Wrights are having their flying
machines initiated. Eli Whitney had his
cotton gin initiated. And my Boil
Weevail Destroyer last year was cruelty
stolen and initiated, but it will live, !
think and l hope, for another seven
years, to stand down Uncle Sans en-
tos and all the other smaller fry. Yours
truly, B. w. MARSTON.
P. S.-Newspapers publishing Mr..
Newelrs newellisms, might at least
give the dear people the other side. Sc
please pass this along the line. M.