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P. L. Jenson, Denmark, Kas. — Successful. I received a box of chinch bugs from 

 you about the 4th day of July, 1894, and I did according to directions. I will say 

 that after about a week the chinch bugs were all dead, and it saved all my corn- 

 stalks, and I let two of my neighbors have some infected bugs, and they proved 

 satisfactory also. I also discovered that where I had used infected bugs last year, 

 in those fields there were no bugs this year. I am sure that if everybody would use 

 infected bugs, in a few years we would have no chinch bugs. 



Edwin Lindstrom, Smolan, Kas. — Unsuccessful. My experiment is a failure. I 

 got a dose of infected bugs and treated the bugs according to directions for about 

 two weeks, but without success. I sent for some more and tried again to get the 

 disease to spread in the boxes, and after one week's trial I found 8 or 10 of the bugs 

 I had gathered dead and fungus covered. I thought of giving it up, but thought I 

 would try another week, and after that week was ended I had a few more dead and 

 fungu^oovered bugs. I tried another week, and then in all I had about 30 or 35 

 bugs dead and fungus covered. My neighbors thought I had starved those to 

 death until they looked into the boxes and saw that they had increased so that they 

 were about four times as many as I had gathered. I gathered about 500 or 600. I 

 thought to let them in the field again, but my neighbors asked me for mercy's sake 

 to not do so, but to kill those I had got hold of, and so I did. I '11 hereby say, that 

 it is no humbug, but it works too slow. 



P. G. Lowe, Leavenworth, Kas. — Successful. My experiments were not so satis- 

 factory as the year before. The inclosed slips explain two fields. The rye was 

 completely destroyed, after which the corn was considerably injured. In the rye 

 I used the infected bugs kept over from the year before. Believing that all the bugs 

 on my farm were in the rye (where I had them in corn the year before), I exhausted 

 all of them there, and thought I had them under control until they suddenly became 

 numerous in the corn. The millet and cornfield is half a mile from the rye and 

 corn. Without seeming to come from any place, the bugs were found scattered all 

 through the millet, compelling me to cut it two weeks too soon in order to save it. 

 I left a strip a rod wide next to the corn, hoping to check them a little and give the 

 corn a chance, but they soon reached the corn and did some damage. When I found 

 them in the millet, I sent to yon for infected bugs, and I worked faithfully accord- 

 ing to directions, having a good box. I found great quantities of dead bugs, and 

 cheoked the vigor of those not found dead. In my pasture adjoining both corn- 

 fields, where there was plenty of foxtail, I soon saw signs of bugs. They are very 

 fond of foxtail, and I expected to see them emerge from the cornfield and move 

 into the pasture, but they did not. Where I had millet I sowed wheat, and it did 

 well, with no signs of chinch bugs in it. I think this indicates that the bugs did not 

 leave the cornfield, unless they flew out, and that they mostly died. Notwithstand- 

 ing the unfavorable season (too dry), and notwithstanding I commenced too late 

 where the millet wa9, and did not do very good work where the rye was, I had 35 

 bushels of corn to the acre. So that, you see, my impressions are to the effect that 

 I was too negligent in one field and too late in the other, but that the destructive 

 element was in the infected bugs and did a great deal of work, and if applied sooner 

 and more faithfully, might have saved all my corn. 



C. T. Manchester, Bellaire, Kas. — Successful. Before sending to you for infected 

 bugs I procured some from neighbors' fields and scattered them in my corn. It 

 was some time before they took any apparent effect; then they began to die by the 

 thousands and did no further damage. They first appeared in the center of my 90- 

 aore field and had taken about one acre before I discovered them. They were very 

 numerous, and before the infection had time to take effect they had scattered over 



