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PSYCHE. 



March 1S92. 



C. B. MCALLISTER, BELLE PLAINE, SUMNER 

 CO., KANSAS. 



Applied for aid June 20. "The bugs are 

 passing from the wheat into the corn by the 

 million." 



Infection sent June 22. Experiment suc- 

 cessful as reported October 17. 



"It was a success in my case. I followed 

 your advice, putting diseased bugs in the 

 corn. On the fifth day I could find no dead 

 bugs. On the sixth day we found some dead 

 ones, and the live ones were very lonely. 

 The tenth day I could shake a handful of 

 dead bugs off one hill of corn. In fifteen 

 days they were all dead in the corn where 

 I placed the infected bugs. I am very 

 thankful we received the diseased bugs, as 

 I believe it saved us 1600 bushels of corn. If 

 I had sent sooner I would have saved 200 

 bushels of wheat." 



W. W. CORM1CK, ANTHONY, HARPER CO., 

 KANSAS. 



Applied for aid June 21st. "My corn is 

 run over with bugs." 



Infection sent June 24th. Experiment 

 successful as reported October 19th. 



"I followed directions closely, and on the 

 seventh day I found dead bugs just the color 

 of the first lot you sent me which were of 

 a white furry appearance. The ground in a 

 few days became pretty well covered with 

 dead bugs. I then received a second lot, 

 the dead bodies of which were black. Where 

 I put black infected bugs the ground was 

 covered with black bugs, and where white 

 infected bugs were put I found the dead bugs 

 to be white. I divided with my neighbors 

 and they reported to me that it was a suc- 

 cess. One man said that he could scoop up 

 the dead bugs in great quantities after eight 

 or ten days ; he is convinced that the infec- 

 tion did the work. I am convinced that the 

 two varieties carry death with them and 

 .each marks its victim peculiar to itself, and 



in conclusion I will say : should I ever be 

 troubled again, I would lose no time in writ- 

 ing for bugs." 



Reported in November : 



"The infected bugs saved 900 bushels of 

 corn in my field." 



H. H. COLLINS, BELLEVILLE, REPUBLIC CO. 

 KANSAS. 



Applied for aid July 9th. " Bugs are leav- 

 ing the wheat and are going into my cane, 

 millet and corn. Please send infected bugs 

 by return mail." 



Infection sent July nth. Experiment suc- 

 cessful as reported December 25th. 



" The observations that I made were as 

 follows: 1st, — There were no dead bugs in 

 field when I placed infected bugs in; 2d, — 

 I found the first dead bugs on the fourth 

 day — just a few — and on the seventh day 

 I found that the bugs were all piling up in 

 piles on the ground, and another thing I 

 noticed was a white fungus on the ground 

 where the bugs were dying; 3d, — The bugs 

 did not seem to do any harm to the growing 

 grain after they began to pile up on the 

 ground; 4th, — I found that the disease 

 spread one-fourth of a mile in about ten 

 days. It was late in the season when I 

 received infected bugs. The people up this 

 way think that the infected bug is the great- 

 est discovery of the age." 



M. MONSON, KACKLEY, REPUBLIC CO., KAN. 



Infection sent June 23. Experiment suc- 

 cessful as reported October 23d. 



" The diseased bugs were scattered in an 

 eight acre field of wheat three days before 

 the wheat was harvested. After ten days I 

 found dead bugs in piles so that I could heap 

 my hand full from a spot not larger than my 

 hand. At the same time I found dead bugs 

 in a field where no diseased bugs had been 

 placed one half mile from mine. Bugs were 

 now travelling from wheat to an adjoining 



