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only met with success in a few cases in the field. We attribute the failure in the 

 fields to the very dry weather we had at the time we were sending out the bugs. 

 Should bugs be thick here next year, we will try it again, as we do not see why the 

 infection will not work as well in the field as in the boxes, should the weather be fa- 

 vorable. 



P. C. Young, Fredonia. — My patrons in the bug line did not report to me, thereby 

 making it very diffloult to comply with your very reasonable request. My boxes 

 were in use for about two months, and, as far as my inexperienced observation 

 went, were doing quite well; however, on sending some of my infection to Lawrence 

 for your inspection, it was pronounced bad, and some 100 boxes of your infection 

 ■were sent me with the advice to use those instead of those produced in my boxes. 

 This was complied with from that on. 



III. REPORTS FROM INDIVIDUAL EXPERIMENTERS. 



Reports have been received from over 3,000 farmers who made use of 

 the infection during the past season. The following are a few reports, taken 

 at random, which show the general opinion regarding the success of the in- 

 fection in 1894: 



F. M. Abridge, Vandalia, Mo. — Unsuccessful. In regard to the bugs, I tried them 

 according to directions, but never saw any difference only that they increased faster. 

 I got a neighbor or two to send and tell you the result, and sent the bugs with them 

 that you required, and they got bugs, or dust, and we put them in a tight can, then 

 turned them loose, and kept catching and putting bugs in for a week or so and 

 turning them loose, but they still increased all the time till frost. Now the grapes, 

 corn shocks and the roots of the stalks are full of them. If there is anything in 

 your remedy we failed to see it, although we were hopeful, yet maybe we failed to 

 give the proper care or the medicine lost its strength before we got it. So I have n't 

 lost confidence in the diseased bugs, if it is strong enough after it gets here; so you 

 can send me some more in the spring, so I can put it in the field early, before the 

 eggs hatch. 



A. G. Anderson, Nilwood, Macoupin county, Illinois. — Successful. It was getting 

 late when I received the bugs, on Tuesday of the week, and placed them in a box ac- 

 cording to directions; kept them well moistened, and left them until Saturday morn- 

 ing, when the one-half pint of bugs were mostly dead. I had five acres of late corn 

 with wheat on both sides; the bugs had eaten it clean about 20 rows on the west 

 and north, adjoining the wheat. I placed the infected bugs in several places where 

 the hills were thick with live bugs; in a few days there were very few live bugs, and 

 the balance of the corn was injured but little. We out and fed out the two sides 

 most injured, and cut and shocked the balance, and sowed the field in wheat. Have 

 not moved any of the shocks yet, but know the fodder is all right. On another field, 

 where I did not put any of the infected bugs, they went all over seven acres of early 

 corn and nearly ruined it. At least half of it fell down before we cut it, and the 

 fodder is very poor feed. I am satisfied, with two years' experience, that the infec- 

 fection can be made a success, if given proper attention. 



J. E. Bales, Braymer, Mo. — According to promise, I will try to tell you how the 

 infected bugs worked for me. I think they saved my crop. One of our neighbors 

 got bugs from me, and had good success. The weather was very dry and hot. We 



