The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 38
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 9, 1904

W. D. KYSER MADE VERY
SATISFACTORY EXPERIMENTS.

     W. D. Kyser has recently made some very satisfactory experiments in using Paris green for poisoning the cotton boll weevil. He made three applications of the poison to a two acre cut in a large field. The applications were made early in the morning and late at night when the dew was on the cotton thus insuring the adherence of the poison. About three days after applying the poison he went out to his farm and examined the cotton for results. He found that on the two acres treated, that there were no dead squares on the ground and no weevils in sight. That in the cotton not treated in the same field, that there were many squares dead on the ground with boll weevil on them.  Mr. Kyser will continue this method of fighting the pest and will develop what good there is in it.

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