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In receipt of the foregoing letter, to meet tlie views of tlie writer, Messrs^ 

 Preston & Robini made a reduction of one half in the price of their prepara- 

 tion : The Texas Cotton Worm Destroyer. 



Hackberry, Lavaca Co., Texas, 

 July mil, 1877. 



3IESSRS, Preston & Robira, Galveston : 



Gentlemen, — Enclosed please find order for $375 50-100 on Messrs. Heyck 

 <fc Helferich, which you will please collect and put to my credit on account. 



The Texas Cotton Worm Destroyer has proved to be a success, when 

 sprinkled on cotton plants, strewn over with young worms, which of course 

 is the proper time, but as in the most cases the farmers are not promptly 

 ready for the work, it has become the settled opinion among our farmers 

 that it takes one and a half measures to a barrel of water to give sufficient 

 strength, now as it is calculated that 25 cents buys poison for one acre, it 

 would need a measure one and half times the size and a package correspond- 

 ing to give full satisfaction. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



L. E. Neuhaus. 



Bolivar Point, Texas, Se2}t. 1st, 1877. 



Messks. Preston & Robira : 



Gents, — This is the third year that I have used your Texas Cotton Worm 

 Destroyer, and have never yet failed to save my crop, as my merchant Mr. 

 Muckle of your city can testify by the amount of cotton that I shipped to 

 him, while my neighbors, who did not use your poison, lost their entire 

 crops. The result has been very marked this year, the worms were thicker 

 than I ever saw them before, I had to apply the poison two or three times. 

 It rained every day while I was using the poison, I had to double the 

 amount, went right ahead, and tilled all the worms without injury to 

 the cotton whatever. One of my neighbors, Frank Lindtner, who lives 

 only a mile or so from me who did not use the poison, had his crop entirely 

 eaten up by the worms. Just above him Mr. Albert Plummer used your 

 poison and saved his entire crop. Adjoining his field Mr. H. M. Powell has 

 a farm, did not use the poison, had the best part of his crop destroyed by 

 the worms, all those who have timely and properly applied your poison 

 have fally agreed that you have the best remedy for destroying the cotton 

 worm, boll worm, etc., that has been or perhaps ever will be invented. 



Truly yours, 



A. J. Johnson. 



Industry, Texas, Aug. 9th, 1877. 



Messrs. Preston & Robira, Galveston : 

 Gentlemen,— Enclosed find seventy-five dollars on Kauftman & RunyCi 



