t is spring; and in some Heaton where the ae had. Ft 
xceedingly numerous before, but few, if any, could ‘pos 
arly in 1896.”’ He says further, that ‘‘ the climatic con- ay 
"= the season of 1896 were such that the chinch- “bug dis- 
ithad been more generally employed in all infested counties s ’ 
ich-bug plague could have been prevented for a great num- _ 
k lled. Where those to whom infection was sent applied | 
oughly and according to directions, success followed.’’ 
‘(presses a doubt as to whether the disease attacks healthy - 
, or only those feeble ones that would die whether or not 
