54 INJURIOUS INSECTS OF KANSAS. 



If the elevator or grain building is thoroughly infested with the 

 mites, only the most radical measures will rid it of the pests. The 

 contents should be removed, so far as possible, and the building 

 thoroughly dried and fumigated. 



Kansas Notes. — Miss Mary Murtfeldt, of Missouri, in a note in 

 Insect Life, (vol. ii, p. 251, January and February, 1890,) men- 

 tions the occurrence of the Flax-seed Mite in a warehouse at 

 Paola. Some 4,000 bushels of stored flax-seed were infested, and 

 the mites were present in such amazing numbers that the owner 

 feared they w^ould destroy the entire stock. 



At the twenty-third annual meeting of the Kansas Academy 

 of Science, Lawrence, November, 1890, Prof D. S. Kelly, of the 

 State Normal School, Emporia, exhibited specimens of the mites 

 and injured flax-seed taken at Emporia. 



Several occurrences of the mite in the State have been reported 

 to this Department. 



