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It will be a tragedy if the grept cotton-growing states of South Caro
lina and Georgia raise a crop smaller, or even thq size of last year’s,
trailing Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi.
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Barrett & Company (of which I am Eresident) draws its cotton from
Georgia and South Carolina, and I am not going to sit idly hy and see
counties in our territory raise only from 5 to 50% of their normal crop
because they are pinning their faith to'a poison which will not carry
their cotton through!
No matter how much protection it has afforded up to now, the “home
mixture” is beginning to fall dowii and the damage will be increasingly
evident day by day. Lulled into a sense of false security by the success
of “home mixture” before the cotton bloomed, the farmers'are expect
ing it to protect their cotton against the weevil on through the grow
ing sesaon, when the results right now are proving that it will not. As
soon as you realize this, TURN TO HILL’S MIXTURE, WHICH
WILL GIVE YOU COMPLETE PROTECTION (EXCEPT FOR
WHAT IS ALREADY PUNCTURED).
In the past few days I have received scores of letters from farmers
in South Carolina and Georgia, who, awakened by my article in South
Carolina papers ten days ago, kept a careful watch on their cotton
and saw that the “home mixture” was not killing the weevil completely
after the squares were formed. 1 will be glad to send anyone interested,
copies of these letters upon request .
Don’t buy experience
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feat’s crop!
If'you are poisoning your crop with “home mixture’ ’ go out and
make a careful thorough examination of your fields, and you will find
some weevil and some puncturecTsquares. These weevil are j.ust the
vanguard of the thousands that will begin to hatch out in a week or ten
days and who will literally EAT YOUR CROP UP!
REMEMBER, LATE JULY AND EARLY AUGUST ARE THE
. CRITICAL WEEVIL PERIODS WHEN BOLLS BEGIN TO BE
PUNCTURED. ONLY HILL’S MIXTURE WILL PROTECT THE
BOLLS DURING THIS PERIOD. The weevil who ate the “home mix
ture” before the cotton bloomed are deserting it now for the squares,
and further applicaitons will be practically useless.
I do not merely claim thfct the "home mixture” will not protect your
cotton after it has bloomed! I simply ask that you keep a CAREFUL,
day-by-day watch on your crop, and you will see that it DOES NOT
for yourself. . Unfortunately, however, some farmers who saw, that
“home mixture” poisoned the weevil successfully before the cotton
bloomed, are giving no furtehr heed to the weevil, are not watching
their cotton, and THEIR CROP WILL PAY THE PRICE! They are
lulled into a false sense of security.
Mr. jiill tried out the "home mixture” extensively, but found that it
did not wbrk successfully after the squares 'had been formed, and it
was this which influenced him to discover and perfect a secret ins
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save your cotton
If you act' quicij, and begin using Hill’s Mixture now, it is not yet
.too late to save your cotton, but if you wait much longer, it will be.
I am receiving letter$Trom farmers in every section of the state,
saying that HILL’S MIXTURE is protecting their cotton after the
squares are formed, proving that our claim that HILL’S MIXTURE
did attract the weevil was justified'. TKbse are, not letters written
last year, from some far-off state by people you never heard of, but
are from the most reputable, capable'farmers in'the state. They state
in practically;every instance, that it is impossible to find a weevil or a
punctured square in their cotton.. ASK SOMEONE IN YOUR COM
MUNITY WHO IS USING HILL’S MIXTURE, WHAT RESULTS
HE IS GETTING AND BE GUIDED BY HIS ADVICE!
sippi), and my rmanciai support Demna hills miaiukjl dc
KNOW that it will kill the weevil right on through the crop ; I «...
warning you against “home mixture” because I know that it WILL
NOT protect right on through the crop.. w
Open your eye's! Switch before it is too late, as soon as you see the
punctured squares.
FRANK H. BARRETT
Augusta, Georgia
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reed if they exp
To this I have 1
In a former advertisement of June 28th I extended the following invitation: “I am anxious that a teat be conducted In any part of Sooth Carolina where the cot ten b now blooming, bp unprejudiced, capable and reliable parties, to test the
compraative efficacy of the ‘home mixture’ and ‘Ilill'a mixture,’ aa boll weevil poisona after the squares hi
■■I invito any man, with any method of boll weevil control he has, to put his fa nil on the table, put hia method up against mine before any fair judges and let the people of South Carolina know the result. I will be glad to pay the coats
of any such demonstration, and invite county agents, representatives from State Department of Agriculture and the U. S. Department of Agriculture, In order to convince the people of South Carolina that they are leaning on n broken
Ct the homo mixtures to protect their, cotton from the boll weevil AFTER THE SQUARES HAVE FORMED.” . » •
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