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.
~~~~~
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for
printing by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.