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the south and oats east and west. Finding the bugs were about to take it as the 

 email grain was about to ripen, we put the bugs (infected) in the edge of the wheat 

 and in the corn, and that was the last of them. East of the oats we had 20 acres of 

 wheat, which we plowed up about the 10th of June and put into corn. When the 

 corn was up ready for the cultivator, we found that it was alive in spots with young 

 chinch bugs; we at onoe distributed infected bugs, and that was the last we heard 

 of them. The man who cultivated the field said he saw no more of them north of 

 that field; and east of the wheat field a tenant had a piece of late corn and the bugs 

 came in from the wheat stubble on the west. He had, by my advice, sent to you for 

 infected bugs, and was prepared for them. He told me that one infection finished 

 them. We believe the infection has been a decided success on our farm of nearly 

 400 acres — tried by ourselves and two tenants. 



D. J. White, Clements, Kas. — Successful. When I first put them out, early in 

 June, the bugs were very scarce, and the ground dry; therefore, it was almost im- 

 possible to do the work properly, and I only put out one batch of infected bugs; 

 but, after the rains in the latter part of June, the bugs began dying in great num- 

 bers, the ground being covered in places with fungus-covered bugs. The disease 

 •worked so effectively that the bugs did no harm to corn in adjoining fields after my 

 wheat was cut. 



Stephen Wilson, Washington, Kas. — Unsuccessful. I received the infected bugs 

 in due time, and I complied with the instructions you sent in regard to starting the 

 infection in boxes, and succeeded admirably. Scattered some at three different 

 times in the cornfield, but the disease had no effect at any time in the field, but I 

 •was not at all surprised, as rain, dew or moisture of any kind was apparently a 

 thing of the past. Yes, I verily believe, under favorable conditions, that it would 

 be a success; anyhow, I intend trying again next year. Yet, what good can one 

 man in a community accomplish, when people on all sides of him are indifferent to 

 the matter? 



IV. SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN KANSAS, 



FOR 1894. 



_ Sue- Unsuc- Doubt- 

 County. 82 KANSAS COUNTIES. cessful. cess/ul. ful. Total. 



Allen 3 x 4 



Anderson 16 4 6 26 



Atchison 15 16 8 39 



Barton 2 4 l 7 



Bourbon 15 u 10 40 



Brown 2 5 3 10 



Butler 7 7 7 01 



Cha9e 11 9 11 31 



Chautauqua 4 1 2 7 



Cherokee u 5 5 21 



€la y 31 26 23 80 



€loQd 29 30 11 71 



€offe y 7 3 3 13 



Cowley 2 2 1 5 



Crawford 20 10 11 41 



Decatur 1 ^ „ 



Dickinson H 9 2 22 



