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Great care is required in mixing Paris Green witli the materials pre- 

 pared for the extermination of the Cotton Worm, or Potato Bug. 



The Green is very poisonous ; and as it is a fine powder, if it flies upon 

 the skin it will make very sore any scratch or wound which may be there. 



Great care must be taken to avoid inhaling the Green, as it will produce 

 nausea, and giddiness of the head, etc. 



When mixing the Green with the other materials, or sprinkling the 

 compound, jpwi a liandkeoxhief over tlie mouth and nose, and after the work is 

 done, the clothing should be thoroughly shaken (still keeping on the 

 handkerchief), and the entire hody carefully washed in cold water. 



In making the Compound, add small quantities at a time of the Paris 

 Green, and thoroughly incorporate the same with the other materials. 



When the Compound is applied, and in a dry state, with a sprinkler, to 

 the Cottonov Potato Plant, be careful to go with the wind and not against it' 

 so as to avoid the Powder as much as possible. 



If applied in a liquid form, do not permit any vessel used for the Mixture 

 to be used for any other purpose, until very thoroughly washed. 



If any inconvenience arises from inhaling any of the Green or Compound 

 (and it is not thought necessary to employ a doctor), drink milk very 

 freely ; and for sores, or irritated skin, apply Oxide of Iron in the form of a 

 salve. 



Any planter will at once perceive the difficulty of inducing his hands to 

 take all these precautions, and the danger of snch an agent in the hands 

 of the ignorant and careless. 



ALL THAT HE HAS TO DO WITH THE COTTON WORM DESTROYER 



Is to stir four ounces of the mixture into about forty gallons of water, and 

 apply it to an acre of cotton with a common watering-pot, or any of the 

 simple machines which have been devised for sprinkling fields, streets, etc. 

 The cost of effectually preserving an acre of cotton does not exceed 12i cts. 

 a perfectly inconsiderable amount when the certainty of its results and the 

 great saving that results from its use are remembered. Having shown the 

 great calamities which follow in the track of the cotton worm, and the 

 cheapness with which the Texas Cotton Worm Destroyer can be applied, 

 it remains for us but to show the certainty of the result. 



In doing this, we shall have recourse to no argument founded on 

 philosophical probabilities, we shall present nothing but the actual results 

 which have ensued from the application of the Texas Cotton Worm 

 Destroyer to fields of growing cotton by actual planters, well-known and 

 respectable gentlemen, whose words are received as current coin in the 

 \5ommunities in which they live. We do this because we recognize the 

 truth of that homely axiom which says that " the proof of the pudding is 

 in the eating of it." The proof of the Texas Cotton Worm. Destroyer is in 

 the eating of it by the worms. 



