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suit was excellent. The bugs were checked in their destruction of crops. They 

 were partially exterminated in the field. Saved about 250 bushels of oats. Did not 

 save corn, as there would not have been any anyhow. 



C.W. Peter, Randolph, Kas. — Successful. I received the infeoted bugs you sent me 

 and gave them a thorough trial. I had a piece of winter wheat in which the bugs 

 bred, and were there by the millions, and on the south of the wheat I had oats, and 

 on the north, corn. They moved into the corn the full length, 80 rods, and in this 

 corn I put the infected and dead, molded bugs and put them out a number of times. 

 I had two boxes and kept a good supply on hand, and will say it worked to a charm 

 in the boxes, and I think I did a thorough job scattering them. About this time we 

 had a number of good rains and I noticed after a few days quite a good many dead 

 bugs; but on the south of the wheat, in the oats, where I did not put any dead or 

 infected bugs, I found them in piles, dead by the millions. They were found in 

 piles, dead, in my neighbors' fields also. I believe they will take the disease and die, 

 if the grouad is wet, or there is sufficient moisture. 



S. F. Ralston, Walnut, Kas. — Unsuccessful. In reply, will state that it was not a 

 success in my case, but perhaps it was partly my fault, as I had to be away from 

 home so much of the time that I could not attend to it as should have been done. 

 I had to leave it to my youngest boy, 14 years old. He attended to it as well as he 

 could. But we had such very dry weather just as the wheat was cut, and the bugs 

 were so thick that they just went into the corn in swarms. That field of corn was 

 late planted, and between the bugs and dry weather it will not yield five bushels of 

 corn to the acre. And another thing, the corn was too thick on the ground, aver- 

 aging, perhaps, three stalks to the hill, which is at best too much for our thin, hard- 

 pan land. All these different causes effected an almost entire failure of the crop. 



H. C. Reeder, Wichita, Kas. — Successful. When the infected bugs arrived, I 

 gathered and infeoted them, and put them on each side of my field, for there was 

 no bugs in my field to infect. Now for an explanation: Last year I got infection 

 from you, and I " paralyzed" every chinch bug in my field, and I believe the infection 

 lived through the winter, and, consequently, no bugs. I also furnished infected bugs 

 to a neighbor who had a fine field of corn. There was wheat on each side of his corn- 

 field, and those wheat fields were full of chinch bugs. When the wheat was cut, the 

 bugs went into the cornfield by the wagon load. I gave him infected bugs, and told 

 him to gather two wooden water buckets full of bugs from the field, and 48 hours 

 after he put out the first lot, and I had him put them out every three days for two 

 weeks. After the first lot went out the bugs stopped work. He only lost about four 

 acres of his corn — two acres on each side — the balance made good corn, except 

 what was cut short by the drought. Some of his corn made 40 bushels to the acre, 

 and was a great success. 



Frank Robertson, Lowemont, Kas. — Successful. I sent for some of your infeoted 

 bugs last June and used them according to directions, and found it to work beyond 

 expectations. After scattering them over the field, it was n't but a few days till 

 they commenced to die in great quantities all over the field. 



Wm. Rogers, Lee's Summit, Mo. — Successful. I received infected bugs from Mr. 

 Wm. Hoke, of Lee's Summit. Perhaps you would like to know the result. Well, I 

 had 18 aores of millet adjoining 90 acres of wheat badly infested with bugs; so I 

 considered my millet doomed. I thought I would make an effort to save it. In two 

 days after wheat was cut the bugs had killed the millet five or six rods from the 

 fence. On Tuesday I got the infeoted bugs, and gathered about a quart of bugs; on 

 Thursday I scattered them among the thickest of the bugs. I thought it was a 



