The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-01-23
DIRECTIONS
And Suggestions for Applying Mars
toms Boil Weevil DESTROYER.

First. Grease the p1unger good before
starting and keep it creased Before
poisoning any cotton fill the cylinder
with water only, to get accustomed to
using the pump with about one-fourth
stroke, putting on about one-fourtf
ounce to 70 strokes of the plunger. The
pump works automatically and can not
miss unless it is "choked up" If choked,
empty the poison into some vessel for
future use, and wash the pump out with
water and open the choked pipe with a
small wire. But the pipe will not choke
except through carelessness.
Second Empty the contents of one
package of Destroyer in a vessel to
every quart of water used, shake or
stir well, fill the pump and go to work,
There is no sense in spraying more
poison on the cotton than the cotton
will hold. so use a short stroke, and go
| fast
Third. Frequently hold the pump UP
and shake it to keep the poison from
settling in the bottom around the feed
pipe while using. When not in use hold
the pump tip or set it on its handle with
the screw top UP to keep the feed pipe
from choking. /
Fourth Shake we'll occasionally while
using to give the poison no chance to
settle, as it is heavier than water.
Fifth. Before the pump is empty, on
has not enough Destroyer in it to make
a round, it is best to have an extra ves-
SEA tub, bucket, barrel or pitcher
(anything that will hold water)-and
empty one package of the Destroyer in
it to every quart of water, and keep it
we'll stirred or SHOOK up" Then fill
the pumps out of this extra solution. If
the dry charges are emptied into the
pump, when it may be already half full
of the solution, it gets stronger and
stronger and is thereby wasted
Sixth. When the days work is done
empty the pumps into the solution left
on hand and with this start the next
day. There is no sense in making up
any more of the solution that one wants
to use right away One pump is fur
nished free with every forty packages
of the Destroyer-enough to poison
good ten acres of young cotton twice.
A cotton crop can be saved with ONE,
or TWO, or Three or -Four poisonings,
according to conditions, rains, and care
taken in doing the work right It is al
most impossible to do the work wrong,
because the poison is carefully COM
pounded and put up so that even an ig-
norant person can not make a mistake
in using it. I got splendid results last
year from only one poisoning, just be-
fore the cotton commenced squaring.
BUT TAKE NO CHANGES AND
POISON THE COTTON FORTY
EIGHT HOURS BEFORE IT IS
CHOPPED OUT, IF THE WEEVILS
ARE IN SIGHT. Keep the poison out
|of the way of stock, children, and ev-
erything except the Boil Weevil and
depredators on cotton.
Retail price of the pump the world
liver is so cents. Retail price of De-
stroyer 20 cents. Write for wholesale
prices.
It is advisable to open the pump
and see how the packing is adj
justed, and cut some extra packing out
of, say whang 1taaher, so that if needed
there will be no loss of time. Some of
the packings will go through a season
and others will not.
Parties who have not poisoned the
Weevil have no idea what their losses
have been. An entire crop can be pois-
oned after rain with the pumps fur
rished free of cost before any other
work scan be done in cotton field One
half of field of cotton poisoned in this
way last year doubled the yield of the
other half not poisoned, and at an ex-
pense of only rs cents per acre. Using
dry poison in wind is expensive and
very unsatisfactory. No chances should
be taken. Pass this along to your neigh
bors and friends.
B. w. MARSToN,
T. O. Box I4o. Shreveport La.