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fected bags in another field of corn, bat after the dry weather set in I could see no 

 material difference. I think it needs some rainy time to work to perfection. I am 

 satisfied if the directions sent oat are properly followed success will follow. 



Jonathan Gore, Vinita, I. T. — Successful. Will say that I am fully convinoed 

 that the introduction of the bugs in my cornfield saved 50 acres of corn. The bugs 

 had made a fearful invasion and had destroyed 15 acres of my corn before the 

 bugs arrived. I took great pains and scattered the bugs myself. In a few days, 

 to my utter astonishment, the bugs left the field, and I had plenty of corn and some 

 to sell to my less fortunate neighbors. I regard the introduction of infected chinch 

 bags in our country as a very great blessing to the farmers. 



A. Green, LaCygne, Kas. — Successful. My experience with your chinch-bug in- 

 fection is, that it is the best thing that ever came to Kansas. When I commenced 

 with your infection, we had millions of healthy, ravenous bugs, on 25 acres of wheat 

 and 15 acres of oats. We commenced to spread out with the infection; we could 

 not see that it was doing much, but they did not appear to eat and work like they 

 did. We saved our wheat and oats in fine shape, and before we cut it we found mil- 

 lions of dead bugs piled under dead cornstalks, so we quit attending to them till 

 they got into a piece of corn, which they injured some, but that was our fault. We 

 cannot speak of it too highly. We furnished the neighbors for miles around with 

 dead bugs. 



B. R. Henderson, Eskridge, Kas. — Successful. I can truly say again that the ex- 

 periment was entirely satisfactory; was well pleased with the result. The weather 

 during the trial was generally favorable, being more or less damp. I experimented 

 on wheat, oats, and corn, and believe the result was good on each. I found quite a 

 number of the white-fungus bugs in all of the different crops. I let some of my 

 neighbors have bugs, and some of them had satisfactory results while others failed; 

 but I believe the failures were on account of the neglect on the part of the experi- 

 menter. I firmly believe you are doing good work in this line, and if the farmers 

 generally would take more interest in this matter it would be of untold benefit to 

 the farming community. 



Isaac V. Holmes, Beloit, Wis. — Doabtful. I woald report in regard to the inocu- 

 lated bugs received, that we infected from them, and they were distributed to sev- 

 eral of our neighbors who were troubled with the bugs. I also personally tried them 

 on our field of corn. The trouble here was, first, we did not get the infected bugs 

 early enough; secondly, when they were tried, it had become very dry and hot, and 

 there was no rain, there only being three showers in three months. There was no 

 trouble in infecting the bugs in the boxes, but when distributed in the fields the 

 effect was very slight. I attribute the failure to not commencing early enough in 

 the season, when the ground was moist, and to our trying to use them when the 

 drought had become severe and there was no moisture to develop the fungus in the 

 field. 



Thomas Jamieson, Hoge, Leavenworth, Kas.— Doubtful. The directions were fol- 

 lowed minutely. Just after putting the bugs in the field a very heavy rain fell; 

 immediately the bugs nearly all disappeared. There were no dead bugs to be found. 

 I could not tell whether their disappearance was caused by the infected bugs or by 

 the rainfall. I have frequently notioed that after a heavy rain the bugs soatter out 

 through the field, but this time they almost all disappeared, which would lead one 

 to believe that the infection had some effect on them. As I cannot satisfactorily 

 fill out the within card, I must leave you to draw your own conclusions from tho 

 above. 



