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sents a favorable place to infect the bugs, as they seem to collect in the shade and die. Hoping that 

 when the next Legislature meets an appreciating public will suitably reward you for your beneficent 

 discovery, I am. Gratefully yours, J. W. G. McCormick. 



The field experiments were apparently equally successful in the months of July, 

 August, and September. 



The following August field report is inserted as a fair sample of the manner in 

 which the farmers themselves regard these experiments: 



Florence, Kansas, November 1, 1890. 



Prof. F. H. Snow — Dear Sir: On the 20th of August (I think it was) I wrote to you to send me some 

 infected chinch-bugs, and on the 30th of the same mouth you sent me a small lot of infected bugs (I 

 suppose about thirty in all). I then put with these about twenty times as many healthy ones and kept 

 them forty-eight hours, and then deposited them in and through my field. (I have about fifty-five 

 acres under cultivation.) At the time I wrote for bugs my place was all in corn and a very large crop 

 of chinch-bugs. I am safe in saying that there were more bugs on my farm than any two with the 

 same amount of land under cullivation. At the time of sending to you for bugs I told two of my 

 neighbors of my intention, and they laughed at the idea; nevertheless I sent. When I put them in 

 my field it had rained fully a half-day, and after noon I commenced to place them about in different 

 places in my field. I noticed no change in the bugs for three days, it being cold, and on the fourth 

 and fifth days the weather was more warm, and it was then that the destruction of the enemy com- 

 menced, with great satisfaction to myself and great surprise to my laughing neighbors. One of my 

 neighbors, Mr. George Winchester, said that there ought to be a subscription raised and donated to 

 me. I told him not to me, but to you the praise belonged. 



I think that it took about eight days after the fifth from the time that I placed them in my field 

 before they were all destroyed. The fifth day after I put out the diseased bugs I noticed that a great 

 many bugs were flying away from my place. I cannot say if the disease spread in this way or not, or 

 if it spread at all. Three or four persons said that they would come and procure of me some of the 

 dead bugs, but no one came. 



This much I can say: with me this experiment has been a complete success. It has done me a 

 great deal of good. I cannot give it a money value, but am satisfied that had it not been for the in- 

 fected bugs obtained of you I would have lost twenty-seven acres of wheat and eight acres of rye, 

 and when I wrote to you for bugs I then contemplated putting out considerable wheat, and I was at 

 that time considerably troubled about the bugs in my corn, thinking that if I put out any wheat at all 

 it would be destroyed by bugs ; but, thanks to you, my wheat is now safe from bugs, at least those that 

 were on my place before sowing my wheat. I only wish that I had written to you sooner. 



I will send by express one bottle of bugs that I gathered after they commenced to die. 



Respectfully, John F. Knoble, 



The following report from R. L. Staugaard is inserted as being of a more scien- 

 tifically circumstantial character than most of the other reports : 



Florence, Kansas, August 22, 1890. 



Prof. F. H. Snow, Lawrence, Kan. — Dear Sir : In reply to your favor of July 27, last month, would 

 say, that infected bugs were applied after they were kept with live ones about 42 hours. They were 

 applied as follows: 



Most of the bugs mixed were dead when taken out of the box. They were applied in seven diflferent 

 hills, being put into every ninth hill. I marked every hill with a number so as to be better able to 

 watch the progress. 



Examined after 48 hours' application, with the following results: No. 1, mostly dead; No. 2. 

 mostly alive — seemingly very restless ; No. 3, bugs seem to be sick; No. 4, bugs mostly dead, (on hills 

 around this, bugs seemed restless;) No. 5, not examined, (on hills around it the bugs seemed to be af- 

 fected.) Examination three days after application with the following results, to wit: No. 3, bugs seem- 

 ingly in a dying condition, (on the hills around it the bugs seemed to be well with the exception of 

 one hill, where they seemed to be dying, and some dead.) No. 4, not a live bug in the hill ; No. 5, ap- 

 parently dying, also dying in the hills around this ; No. 6, bugs dying in the hill ; No. 7, apparently 

 not dying. 



On August 16th, twelve days after application, I found the bugs to be dying and dead all through 

 the field ( 12 acres). 



On August 20th, I again found the bugs to be dying rapidly. A field being forty rods distant had 

 sure marks of bugs in a dying condition. What I mean by bugs being in a dying condition is this 

 they lay on their backs almost motionless, and others lay in the same position moving limbs violently. 



This remedy was applied on A. G. Rosiere's farm, on Bruno creek, Marion county, Kas., being nine 

 miles east and three miles south of Marion. 



Thanking you for your favors, I remain, yours truly, R. L. Staugaard. 



