38 Contagious Diseases of the Chinch-bug. 
the boxes, clean them out and burn hay in them, to kill the 
spores, and than start the boxes again as at the beginning. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
You should save a quantity of the white-fungus-covered bugs 
for an early start next spring. These should be put away in 
tin boxes where they may be kept dry and above a freezing 
temperature. The fungus will remain alive in the bodies of 
the bugs for a year at least. Should the first lot of infected 
bugs from this Station seem to fail in their purpose, send with- 
out delay for a new supply. 
Note carefully the chinch-bug conditions in neighboring fields, 
and urge your neighbors to use the infection. 
Norr.— As the legislature made no appropriation for the expenses of the Sta- 
tion for 1898 and 1899, each applicant for infected bugs should send twenty-five 
cents to pay for the assistance required in the propagation and distribution of 
the infection. 
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