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Contagious Diseases of the Chinch-bug. 
were sent out from this Station. Were in eighty-four an 
sas counties were supplied. A small proportion of the package 
was sent to farmers in other states. Reports were received 
. from 3,570 of the Kansas experimenters and from 233 of those — 
_-—--——s iiving outside the state; 52 per cent. of the experimenters r 
ae ported success; 29.5 per cent. reported failure; and 18.5 per — 
cent. reported doubtful results. The aggregate estimate of 326 ae 
. correspondents of the value of crops saved by the application of 
Ra the Sporotrichum was $55,000. : 
Substations for the distribution of disease spores were main- ‘i "i 
tained in twenty counties of the state, either by private perso HN 
or by county commissioners. Several thousand farmers were 
supplied by these. This system did not work well in all case 
owing to the carelessness or ignorance of the conductors of the | 
substations. It was found necessary to keep an assistant in the 
field during the greater part of the season, to supervise the 
stations. Many parts of the state suffered this year from 
drought. cm 
1894.— No fewer than 8,000 packages of infection were sent 
out to individual farmers in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma 
during this season. In addition to the distribution of infected Rs: 
material from this Station, fifty auxiliary stations were estab- 
lished in as many different counties in Kansas and Missouri; — é 
thirty-eight of these stations being located in Kansas, and a | 
twelve in Missouri. It is estimated that on an average each of 4 
the fifty substations supplied 300 farmers, giving a total of more 
than 15,000 farmers supplied with infection from this 7 
germs during the year 1894. And in addition many more sup- 
plied themselves from neighboring farms where the disease was - 
present. Reports were received from over 3,000 experimenters, at 
and on the face of these reports fifty-five per cent. of the experi 
ments were successful. No substation was allowed to be est 
lished unless the individual who was to take charge of ' e- 
station should first have visited the laboratory of the central 
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