Print advertisement for toxaphene produced by Hercules Powder Company depicting pages from a calendar with a bale of cotton. A paragraph describes how the use of toxaphene will increase yields by killing weevil infestations. The bottom of the ad is a tear-away coupon for a booklet on cotton insects. This advertisement appeared in Progressive Farmer, Farm & Ranch with Southern Agriculturist, Arkansas Farmer, Cotton Trade Journal, Acco Press, Cotton Gin & Oil Mill Press, and Oil Mill Gazetteer.

Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was a synthetic organic insecticide toxicant primarily used in agricultural insecticides.

Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified its business to encompass a variety of industrial products, including pine and paper chemicals, synthetics, pigments, polymers, and cellulose.