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did not find any fungus bugs, but we found dead bugs by the millions, in piles. I 

 would say for everybody to try the infection next summer, if they have bugs, for 

 they will do the work if faithfully attended to, but it takes work. I know I had 

 more bugs in the start than any of my neighbors, and less in the end, and less dam- 

 age done. 



L. M. Ballard, Wichita, Kas. — Successful. I followed your directions. I got 

 about one quart of bugs and put them with the ones you sent me. I let them re- 

 main 48 hours, then distributed them all around my field on three sides. The bugs 

 were simply awful on my corn; it looked as though it could not stand four days. I 

 could not see any dead bugs when I distributed my bunch of infected bugs, and I 

 was out of heart and thought they were no good, as I could see no dead bugs. The 

 ground was dry and cracked open. I got to looking into the cracks and found 

 some dead bugs. It rained that night and the next day I found lots of dead bugs. 

 From that time on they died by the millions. I got rid of them and only lost about 

 three acres of corn. They seemed to die the most in the sandy ground, but there 

 were very few on the top of the ground; they burrowed into the ground. 



G. Burton, Yates, Randolph county, Missouri. — The bugs proved to be successful 

 in their work. There were some white-fungus-covered bugs found in the infection 

 box, also some dead ones, too. Some white-fungus-covered bugs were also found in 

 the field. The weather was warm and dry when I used the bugs, but the infection 

 took effect and completed the work of destruction on the bugs. In four days after 

 I placed the bugs in the field, the dead bugs could be gathered up by the handful 

 around the hills of corn. 



Geo. Coltharp, Leonardville, Kas. — Must say that I was unsuccessful. Followed 

 directions closely. The weather was hot and dry; had no trouble in getting bugs 

 infected. It worked splendidly in the infection box, but after I had distributed 

 them in my cornfield I could find no dead bugs to speak of. I distributed dead and 

 infected bugs for several days and could see no results. The bugs took my corn 

 clean as they went. They ate up eight acres of corn for me after all my trouble. 

 I therefore concluded the infection will not work in dry weather. 



James Cross, McLouth, Kas. — Unsuccessful. I am very sorry to say your infec- 

 tion proved to be a failure with me. I was at your experimental station myself and 

 received full instructions; I came right home and had the carpenter make me a box 

 for the purpose, and went right to work and gathered the bugs as instructed, and 

 the most of them would die in two or three days, and I kept plenty of dead bugs 

 on hand all the time, and for as much as three or four weeks before the bugs be- 

 gan to come out of the wheat, I scattered the infection all around over the field of 

 wheat, and then wheD the wheat was cut they struck the corn adjoining it on two 

 sides, and I was right there to meet them with the infection, and plenty of it, too, 

 and put a teaspoonful of the infected bugs in every hill in one row clear across the 

 field, and repeated this as long as the bugs remained in the corn. The weather was 

 moderately damp, and the bugs were thick. I could catch a quart off of one hill of 

 corn, and I gave Carl Miller the infection you sent him by me. You have his name 

 there, and he worked very faithfully with it too and received no benefit. I received 

 about $400 damages by them and my time lost fooling with it, and never killed a 

 bug only what I killed in the box, so far as I could see. 



A. J. Field, Austin, Mo.— Successful. After receiving the bugs you sent me, I 

 caught I suppose about two tablespoonfuls, and put with them. As I had to pick 

 them up off the ground one at a time from about the roots of the wheat, it was a 

 very tedious undertaking. I put them in a box with the diseased bugs; kept them 



