The Little River news., 1921-10-01
HAS SUCCESSFULLY POISONED BOIL WEEVIL
Miller County Farmer Demonstrates
 Method to Party From Oklahoma.

Hope, Sept. 28.-Representative business men, bankers and planters were here today from Idabel, Okla, to investigate the results attained by Sid Reed, local planter, in poi soning the boil weevil. With MT. Reed and local business men they vis- ited the Reed farm at Clipper, just across Red river in Miller county and went over the cotton fields where poison was applied with ex- cellent results. In the party were Henry Lattimer, planter; H. c. Mor- iris, active vice president of the First National bank of Idabel; D. R. Strawn, president of the First State bank of Idabel; T. B. West, cashier of the American National bank; Bob Ginn, planter; A. E. Womack, oil mill, and H. M Kirkpatrick, attor- ney. While in the city the visitors were guests of F. O.. Collman and J R. Whittmore of the United oil mills.
 | At the Reed farm the party in spected two or three fields of cotton where the poison was applied. They found the cotton heavily fruited and unpicked. It was estimated that the cotton would yield from three-quar- ters to a bale to the acre. In talk to the visitors MT. Reed said:
 About June 15 I noticed that this cotton was not taking on any suuares. The weevil were working | and would not permit a square tc for. I decided to use the calcium arsenate and had it dusted on with the hand machines. Within another 10 days the squares began to appear and soon the cotton was covered witt blooms. We dusted the cotton agair 1 and still more squares and blooms came It is necessary to put the pow der cut while the dew is on the cot ton To make sure of this we operat- ed the dusting machines late in the afternoon. at night and early in the morning. The only way to poison weevil is by applying the poison to the water it drinks. The weevll drinks from the dew formed on the cotton stalk. After three applications of the poison about 10 or F days apart the army worms came along and stripped the cotton of it's leaves and made it useless to make addition al applications.
 How to Kill Army Worms.
 "The trouble we experienced was in the amount of poison put out. We used about two or three times as much as is necessary. It is little difficult to regulate the spray ma chine so it will not put out more powder than is needed. The cost of the powder on one 15-acre patch was S34, but this may be cut down to about $1 per acre when the machines have been regulated. We have used both the horse drawn machines and the hand machines. Either will prove effective, but where renters have only a small acreage, the hand ma chimes will do the work. There is no doubt that the poisoning will keep the boil weevil down in country where climatic conditions are favor able. In hot, dry regions where dew does not form on the cotton, the poison cannot be used with good re- suits.
 "The ingredients are lime and ar senate in proportions of 60 and 40 per cent, so I understand" MT. Reed says the poison will also rid the cot ton of the leaf worm. He urges early spraying of the cotton to destroy the first crop of weevil before they have increased to numbers sufficient to destroy the crop.