20 Contagious Diseases of the Chanch-bug. 
Experiment 10.. May 22, started four pots. 
(a) Two checks. 
(b) Two sprayed with artificial cultures of Sporotrichum. 
Sporotrichum developed alike in a and b. 
Experiment 11. June 7, started nine pots with bugs from Lib- 
erty, Kas. 
(a) Three checks. 
(b) Three sprayed with sprouted spores of artificial culture 
of Sporotrichum. i 
(c) Three inoculated with Sporotrichum on chinch-bugs. 
An abundance of Sporotrichum developed in b and c¢, but a 
was entirely free from it. 
Experiment 12. June 8, started six pots. 
(a) Two checks. 
(b) Two with Sporotrichum on bugs. 
(c) Two sprayed with artificial cultures of Sporotrichum. 
Bugs died in all the pots, covered with Sporotrichum. One 
of the check-pots showed no fungus for about 10 days, but 
finally this also developed Sporotrichum. 
Experiment 13. June 10, started nine pots with bugs from 
Independence, Kas. 
(a) Three checks. 
(b) Three with Sporotrichum on bugs. 
(c) Three sprayed with artificial cultures of Sporotrichum. 
Bugs died and were covered with Sporotrichum in all pots 
alike. 
Experiment 14. June 12, started six pots with bugs from 
Girard, Kas. 
(a) Two checks. 
(b) Two sprayed with sprouted artificial culture of Sporo- 
trichum. 
(c) Two with Sporotrichum on bugs. 
Sporotrichum developed in all pots alike. 
Experiment 15. June 14, started nine pots. 
(a) Three checks. 
(b) Three with Sporotrichum-coyered bugs. 
(c) Three sprayed with artificial culture of Sporotrichum. 
Sporotrichum developed in all pots alike. 
Experiment 16. June 17, started six pots. 
(a) Two checks. 
