The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-08-15

lie experiment Ill duCSIioh SoihS W
our attention through an article in one
of the newspapers of a neighboring
state. After some investigation, we
found not only that the man who had
experimental with the mixture was a
practical farmer and a reliable citizen,
but that the testimony of other reliable
men was such as to raise at least a pre-
sumption in favor of the efficiency of
the remedy.
/ We, in common with all other mer-
chants of this section, are vitality inte-
rested in the solution of the boil weevil
problem. We felt that if there was
any possibility of virtue in the alleged
remedy, the cotton farmers of infested
territory were entitled to notice of the
fact, in order that they might make the
experiment if they saw fit to do so. We
did not recommend the remedy as
efficacious, but merely called thereto
the attention of those interested. From
the character of the testimony before
rs we believed the experiment was
| justified; and, by reason of the fact that
he proper application of the mixture
involved constant working of the crop,
which all agree is most important fac
tor in the weevil fight, we believed that,
regardless of the merit of the mixture,
the application thereof would neces-
sarily bring good results. Without the
remotest interest in the manufacture or
tsale of the mixture, or of any of its
ingredients, but with the sole motive OF
trying to help in the remedy Of the
serious situation in which the cotton
farmers and all of us are placed, we
gave the information concerning SAID
experiment as wide circulation as we
could.
Communications received by US show
that there exists some difference Of
0; irion between practical planters who
lave experimental with the remedy ant
tire chronological experts who condemn
%, We are advised that the remedy
has done good, notwithstanding the
dogma of the Government scientists
We append of letter dated July 81
J 1914, just received from prominent
merchant and planter of North Louis
lana:
Z w. 3. Thompson,
/. New Orleans, La.
Dear Sir:-I write You to say ] hav'
the Boil Weevil mixture tried, and hav'
; to say that the report is more than sat
! isfacuory. Where it was used in fielt
: on part of the cotton, that portion OF
: which it was used is much heavier fruit
ed, and with plenty of open bolls, ant
the other does not compare with it
{ Everything in the insect line abendOn
the cotton when applied. My manages
could not put it out by sack on single
3 tree, but had sack on end of a stick
: and dragged it over top of cotton, /
2 being larger cotton. The hands on tn
s place are mad that did not send it Il
) them also, and let them use it. l have
Z now supplied them, but did not do s.
4. earlier, as had no confidence in it, es
pecially as the Government demonstra
tor came out in the Press, wanting tb
people to not place any confidence IN tn
mixture, mentioning the ingredients an
3 mode of application. p"
3 We have no intention to criticize tn
3 Governments experimental work. o
3 the contrary, we cheerfully testify t
Z the great value of such enlightened an
3 scientific effort But this appreciation
g does not carry with it the admission tina
q the Government experts have exhauste
B the sum total of this particular divisio
g of human knowledge, leaving but ashe
g and dry bones as the portion of less err
B dite investigations. On the contrar,
8 we have the temerity to believe ths
8 there are truths concerning the problel
B of boil weevil eradication which are g
8 yet undisclosed, even to the superio
. perception of our agricultural savant'
3 The fact that we still have the weev
q with US in undiminished numbers afte
g several years of experiment and advie
q contributed by these same expert
81 would tend to support the theory tn,
Ii there remained something yet to |
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