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hopeless case. On the following Tuesday I was in the field scattering another lot; 

 the bags had made very little progress since I scattered the infeoted bugs. They 

 had gathered in heaps, some dead. The live ones would crawl under the dead ones 

 and under corn stalks and some running in all directions; seme would turn white. 

 They did very little damage afterwards. I cut a good crop of millet. I found a few 

 spots where some of the old ones had flown ahead of the others and deposited a 

 fresh lot of eggs, in thin spots that I did not notice until I commenced to cut the 

 millet. I was very persistent in scattering the infected bugs. I had no wheat, but 

 I will give you my opinion on fightiDg them in the wheat fields early in the season. 

 I think the greatest difficulty is to get the diseased bugs in contact with the others. 

 I find the old bugs remain in and around the roots of the wheat. I think care 

 should be taken to put the diseased bugs in the roots of the wheat, as the diseased 

 bugs are not able to crawl very much, and soon die. 



J. M. Smith, Baxter Springs, Kas. — Successful. The fact is, the chinch-bug in- 

 fection you sent me was most satisfactory. The bugs, when I wrote you, were very 

 bad in four pieces of corn on the place I am on. I got the bugs, and we went at 

 them. In a few days they were all gone, and let me tell you when we commenced 

 on them we could gather a quart in five minutes. I then commenced to give the 

 infected bugs to my neighbors, and all tell me the same story; the corn was saved, 

 and as many as 10 or 12 men are ready to testify to this statement. 



Stephen Stagg, Tonovay, Kas. — Unsuccessful. I had practically no success with 

 your remedy. I kept the bugs, as instructed, for one week in a box, dampened (so 

 much so that some mold came in the box), but not to excess, and out of hundreds 

 of bugs continually coming in contact with them I only found a very few, say 6 to 

 12, of fungus bugs. I then turned some out and got a lot more fresh bugs in; kept 

 them in a week, and did the same with them; then I got more freBh, and, after keep- 

 ing them in the house a few days, I carried the box, bugs and all, right into the 

 cornfield, and, as some could crawl out all the time, I thought that I surely would 

 find plenty of dead bugs on the stalks in close proximity to the box, but was disap- 

 pointed. I tried all I could think of, even to placing individual bugs in the joints 

 of the leaves, amongst the live bugs, but I saw no results; they gradually gained on 

 my cornfield till they became dispersed generally through it. They came in from 

 oat stubble adjoining, and, I am sorry to say, I did not go along the first six rows 

 of corn when they first started and knock them off into a box and burn them, for I 

 know I could have killed four-fifths of them that way; but I wanted to give your 

 fungus a fair show, so left them, and now I have no faith in the remedy. The 

 weather was fairly favorable, the ground moist all the time, as we had one or two 

 rains about that time — it was the latter part of June, I think. You may not re- 

 member, but when I wrote you first, I inclosed you some dead bugs I found in the 

 oat field, and you pronounced them true fungus-dead bugs — that was before receiv- 

 ing any from you. Now, my opinion is, that the fungus may attack old bugs when 

 they are about played out, or after they are dead, but not a good, healthy, lively 

 bug; or how could thousands of them pass and repass over the dead ones in the 

 box, as I have watched them do, and still no results occur. It would be a grand 

 thing for Kansas if it were a sure thing, but it is so doubtful and so much trouble 

 to carry out, that I do not hope for relief from it. The bugs kept breeding right 

 along, and young ones getting thicker all the time I was treating them. I hope you 

 may yet give us some surer relief, though I think there will not be much oats or 

 wheat planted here next season. 



L. W. Truesdell, Concordia, Kas. — Successful. We followed directions as nearly 

 as possible, and with great success. We had about 14 acres of corn, with wheat on 



