The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 9
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 28, 1904

RECOMMENDS POISONING.

     MR. J. T. OWEN, Reagan, Tex.
     My dear sir:- We have had so many letters asking whether it is possible to poison boll weevils, that we have decided to write you without waiting for your inquiry.
     In many sections weevils are reported eating the small, tender terminal leaves and buds of the volunteer cotton sprouting out from last year's stubble.
     In some fields where the cotton was planted very early and is now throwing out terminal leaves, they are also reported.
     As long as the weevils are actually eating the young terminal leaves and buds, many of our co-operative farmers say they can be poisoned by application of Paris Green exactly as you would do for the leaf worm or caterpillar.
     So many farmers say they have been successful in poisoning boll, weevils, that we deem it best to make a thorough trial of poison in all parts of the state where weevils are found. 
     We ask your co-operation: Carefully observe whether the boll weevils are eating the tender leaves and buds of the cotton, or other poison, and note results. 

Very truly yours,
GEO. N. CURTIS.
Houston. Tex. Spec., Agt.

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