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  CONTAGIOUS 
  DISEASES 
  OF 
  THE 
  CHINCH-BUG. 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  70. 
  — 
  "In 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  found 
  bugs 
  in 
  bunches 
  over 
  the 
  field." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  86. 
  — 
  (Unfavorable 
  report.) 
  "The 
  bugs 
  seemed 
  to 
  increase 
  more 
  rap- 
  

   idly 
  than 
  ever 
  before. 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  found 
  any 
  piled 
  up 
  this 
  season, 
  as 
  two 
  years 
  ago.'' 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  99. 
  — 
  "Bugs 
  began 
  to 
  die 
  on 
  fourth 
  day. 
  They 
  died 
  in 
  bunches. 
  White- 
  

   fungus 
  bugs 
  were 
  seldom 
  seen." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  131. 
  — 
  ( 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  1.) 
  " 
  The 
  bugs 
  began 
  to 
  gather 
  in 
  piles 
  in 
  

   a 
  few 
  days." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  145. 
  — 
  "On 
  seventh 
  day, 
  bugs 
  began 
  to 
  bunch 
  and 
  die. 
  They 
  were 
  com- 
  

   pletely 
  exterminated. 
  In 
  neighboring 
  fields 
  they 
  were 
  not." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  153. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  13.) 
  "They 
  gathered 
  in 
  the 
  road 
  by 
  the 
  

   field 
  and 
  died, 
  so 
  I 
  could 
  scrape 
  them 
  up 
  by 
  the 
  handful." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  163. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  17.) 
  "After 
  eight 
  days 
  the 
  first 
  deaths 
  oc- 
  

   curred, 
  and 
  then 
  they 
  went 
  fast. 
  They 
  gathered 
  in 
  heaps. 
  My 
  neighbors 
  could 
  not 
  

   understand 
  how 
  it 
  could 
  be." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  164. 
  — 
  " 
  Four 
  days 
  after 
  infecting, 
  found 
  bugs 
  gathering 
  together 
  and 
  

   dying 
  by 
  the 
  thousand." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  178. 
  — 
  "Where 
  they 
  had 
  been 
  pretty 
  evenly 
  distributed 
  over 
  the 
  ground 
  

   they 
  gathered 
  in 
  circular 
  compact 
  groups 
  upon 
  bare 
  patches 
  of 
  the 
  ground. 
  These 
  

   groups 
  or 
  colonies 
  varied 
  in 
  size, 
  but 
  not 
  much. 
  A 
  circle 
  one 
  rod 
  in 
  diameter 
  might 
  

   contain 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  such 
  groups. 
  They 
  did 
  not 
  move 
  unless 
  disturbed, 
  and 
  appeared 
  

   to 
  be 
  sick 
  — 
  different 
  ones 
  in 
  different 
  stages." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  181. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  May 
  29.) 
  "In 
  about 
  10 
  days 
  the 
  bugs 
  disap- 
  

   peared, 
  but 
  in 
  a 
  short 
  time 
  the 
  young 
  bugs 
  began 
  to 
  hatch 
  by 
  the 
  million. 
  In 
  a 
  few 
  

   days 
  they 
  began 
  to 
  bunch 
  up 
  and 
  die. 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  lose 
  a 
  hill 
  of 
  corn." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  201. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  23.) 
  "July 
  10 
  found 
  bugs 
  in 
  piles 
  — 
  hand- 
  

   ful 
  at 
  a 
  place. 
  Could 
  not 
  find 
  dead 
  bugs 
  in 
  another 
  field." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  203. 
  — 
  "In 
  from 
  7 
  to 
  10 
  days 
  sick 
  bugs 
  gathered 
  in 
  bunches 
  and 
  soon 
  

   died." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  213. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  16.) 
  "In 
  about 
  10 
  days 
  found 
  the 
  bugs 
  in 
  

   bunches, 
  part 
  of 
  them 
  dead, 
  and 
  part 
  in 
  rather 
  a 
  stupid 
  condition. 
  A 
  week 
  later 
  

   they 
  gathered 
  in 
  large 
  bunches 
  and 
  died." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  214. 
  — 
  "Millions 
  upon 
  millions 
  of 
  sick 
  bugs 
  in 
  heaps; 
  some 
  dead, 
  while 
  

   all 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  sick." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  222. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  13.) 
  "They 
  piled 
  up 
  in 
  heaps 
  and 
  died 
  

   very 
  fast." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  224. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  1.) 
  "In 
  about 
  8 
  or 
  10 
  days 
  they 
  began 
  to 
  

   leave 
  the 
  corn 
  stalks 
  and 
  travel 
  around, 
  and 
  gather 
  up 
  in 
  bunches 
  and 
  pile 
  up 
  to- 
  

   gether 
  as 
  if 
  dead. 
  Infection 
  was 
  put 
  in 
  another 
  field 
  two 
  days 
  later, 
  and 
  similar 
  

   bunching 
  took 
  place." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  232. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  24.) 
  "Dead 
  bugs 
  in 
  little 
  piles 
  around 
  the 
  

   field." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  240. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  1.) 
  "The 
  young 
  ones 
  did 
  not 
  turn 
  white 
  

   like 
  the 
  old 
  ones. 
  They 
  piled 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  roots 
  of 
  the 
  wheat 
  stubble, 
  or 
  under 
  grass, 
  

   and 
  died. 
  I 
  can 
  find 
  piles 
  one-fourth 
  inch 
  deep 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  a 
  saucer. 
  They 
  do 
  not 
  

   seem 
  to 
  be 
  hurting 
  anything 
  in 
  my 
  field. 
  I 
  can 
  find 
  none 
  dead 
  in 
  my 
  neighbors' 
  

   fields." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  253. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  2fi.) 
  "Nothing 
  was 
  left 
  of 
  bugs 
  except 
  a 
  

   little 
  skin 
  and 
  wings." 
  

  

  