DIRECTIONS FOR USING CHINCH-BUG INFECTIO 
The infected bugs received from the Station should be 
to start infection boxes in the following manner : 
CHARACTER AND LOCATION OF INFECTION BOX. 
Make a box of seven-eighths inch material (matched wl 
pine is best), about 24x86x6 inches. Make the cover t 
fitting, so that the bugs cannot readily escape. Weather-s 
tacked about the upper edges of the box, so that ca e 
the first box has become wo started, he should sank the eon ah 
from infection obtained from the first. ‘ 
Place the boxes so as to exclude them from the sun and win 
A basement room is a good location. 
TO START THE INFECTION IN THE BOXES. 
Place an ‘even as of eeaden soil in the boxes, half an inch & 
deep. The soil should be free from leaves or anything aii, 
decay. Sprinkle the soil until it is moistened through, but 
muddy. Puta thin layer of green wheat or corn over the soil 
in the boxes, and distribute over this, at regular intervals, 
or six of the white-fungus-covered bugs. Now put into 
boxes healthy bugs from the field until they are somewhat 
crowded, but not packed over one another. Lastly, close an 
‘fasten down the cover. 
the soil muddy. As soon as the hits bane copened ee 
gin to increase in your boxes, you may commence to gat. 
them for the infection of your field, but not before. You sho 
be able to do this in three or four days. Always leave a few. 
