Introductory Note. 



It has Iseen thought unnecessary to recapitulate in this report the results 

 -of observations of previous years on the subject of the contagious diseases of 

 the chinch-bxig. The publication of the list of field experimenters who have 

 made rei^orts is deemed advisable, even in face of its great length, under the 

 belief that an opportunity is thus given farmers to be informed of those in 

 their n^ghborhoods who have made field trials and who are therefore in po- 

 sition to speak at first hand of the probable value of the experiments. In 

 addition to the list of reporting experimenters, a general summary of the 

 season's work in field and laboratory is given, and the needs of the Station 

 are set forth. The report is intended primarily for those especially inter- 

 ested within the State, i. e., the wheat and corn growers, and the laboratory 

 notes and references to the technical work of the Station are brief and gen- 

 eralized. 



The Director recognizes the need of many carefully-conducted series of 

 laboratory experiments to clear up points in the work now imperfectly under- 

 stood. But the evident very considerable work involved in the field experi- 

 menting, carried on with but a single center of infection and distribution, has 

 so taken up the available time of the Director and his assistants, that less 

 time than is desirable has been devoted to laboratory investigation. It is 

 hoped that this condition may be remedied during another year, and that the 

 full time of a laboratory assistant may be had. 



It is also desirable that several centers of infection and distribution be 

 established, so that this great labor may be divided, and especially so that the 

 time elapsing between a request for infection and the coming into the hands 

 of the farmer of the infected bugs may be as short as possible. 



The act establishing the Experiment Station is as follows : 

 House bill No. 639. 



An Act to estabUsh an Experimental Station at the State University of Kansas, to promote and con- 

 duct experiments for the destruction of chinch-bugs by contagion or infection, and making an ap- 

 propriation therefor. 

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: 



Section 1. That the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars be and the same is hereby 

 appropriated for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and conducting an ex- 

 perimental station at the State University, at Lawrence, to propagate the contagion 

 or infection that is supposed to be destructive to chinch-bugs, and furnish the same 

 to the farmers free of charge, under the direction and supervision of the Chancellor, 

 F. H. Snow, as hereinafter provided. 



