﻿GENERAL 
  NOTES 
  AND 
  RESULTS. 
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  Report 
  No. 
  264. 
  — 
  "In 
  about 
  10 
  days 
  the 
  live 
  bugs 
  bunched, 
  and 
  died 
  in 
  bunches 
  

   ranging 
  in 
  size 
  from 
  a 
  teacup 
  to 
  a 
  quart 
  cup. 
  These 
  bunches 
  were 
  mostly 
  shells." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  269. 
  — 
  " 
  Before 
  dying 
  the 
  bugs 
  bunched. 
  The 
  bunched 
  bugs 
  seemed 
  to 
  

   burst." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  280. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  30.) 
  ''Find 
  the 
  bugs 
  piled 
  up 
  in 
  small 
  

   piles, 
  almost 
  all 
  of 
  them 
  dead. 
  ' 
  They 
  piled 
  up 
  in 
  piles 
  containing 
  a 
  quart 
  in 
  some 
  

   places." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  284. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  7.) 
  "About 
  the 
  tenth 
  day 
  I 
  found 
  many 
  

   bugs 
  dead 
  in 
  small 
  balls 
  or 
  rolls, 
  gathered 
  with 
  hundreds 
  of 
  stupid 
  living 
  ones. 
  Bugs 
  

   soon 
  seemed 
  to 
  be 
  exterminated." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  309. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  20.) 
  "I 
  found 
  them 
  in 
  bunches 
  under 
  the 
  

   leaves 
  where 
  there 
  was 
  shade, 
  and 
  they 
  were 
  dead." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  320. 
  — 
  ( 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  4.) 
  " 
  The 
  bugs 
  gathered 
  in 
  bunches 
  and 
  

   died 
  rapidly, 
  in 
  great 
  numbers. 
  Other 
  farmers 
  came 
  to 
  gather 
  bugs 
  to 
  infect 
  their 
  

   places." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  342. 
  — 
  ( 
  Infection 
  received 
  June 
  30.) 
  " 
  Dead 
  bugs 
  in 
  large 
  piles 
  near 
  

   and 
  around 
  corn 
  hills; 
  also, 
  under 
  sticks 
  and 
  behind 
  corn 
  leaves. 
  Gave 
  to 
  neighbors 
  

   with 
  the 
  same 
  result." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  351. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  11.) 
  "On 
  the 
  seventh 
  day 
  bugs 
  were 
  piling 
  

   up 
  in 
  piles 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  and 
  did 
  not 
  harm 
  the 
  growing 
  corn 
  after 
  that 
  time. 
  Dis- 
  

   ease 
  spread 
  one-fourth 
  of 
  a 
  mile 
  in 
  about 
  10 
  days." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  352. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  23.) 
  "After 
  10 
  days 
  found 
  dead 
  bugs 
  in 
  

   piles, 
  a 
  handful 
  in 
  a 
  place. 
  As 
  the 
  bugs 
  were 
  not 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  grown, 
  it 
  seemed 
  

   strange 
  that 
  they 
  left 
  the 
  corn 
  without 
  killing 
  any 
  of 
  it." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  356. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  13.) 
  "Could 
  scrape 
  up 
  dead 
  and 
  sick 
  bugs 
  

   by 
  the 
  double-handful. 
  Neighbors 
  carried 
  them 
  off 
  by 
  the 
  teacupful." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  366. 
  — 
  "Bunches 
  of 
  bursted 
  bugs 
  were 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  week 
  after 
  

   infecting." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  383. 
  — 
  ( 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  29.) 
  "After 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  they 
  began 
  to 
  

   collect 
  in 
  groups. 
  They 
  began 
  to 
  die 
  in 
  seven 
  days. 
  After 
  10 
  days 
  destruction 
  

   reigned 
  among 
  them. 
  Neighbors 
  were 
  supplied 
  with 
  equal 
  success." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  391. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  2.) 
  "Found 
  bugs 
  beginning 
  to 
  bunch 
  and 
  

   die 
  in 
  six 
  days. 
  About 
  a 
  rod 
  ahead 
  of 
  the 
  dead 
  ones 
  I 
  found 
  the 
  live 
  ones 
  coming 
  

   back 
  to 
  the 
  bunches. 
  Wherever 
  an 
  infected 
  bug 
  had 
  been 
  dropped, 
  for 
  several 
  feet 
  

   around 
  the 
  bugs 
  were 
  piled 
  up 
  or 
  formed 
  in 
  bunches, 
  and 
  in 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  days 
  

   would 
  die, 
  and 
  would 
  do 
  no 
  damage 
  after 
  beginning 
  to 
  bunch." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  406. 
  — 
  (Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  28.) 
  "In 
  two 
  weeks 
  after 
  infecting, 
  could 
  

   not 
  find 
  a 
  live 
  bug 
  in 
  the 
  field. 
  They 
  had 
  apparently 
  piled 
  up 
  in 
  small 
  bunches 
  and 
  

   died. 
  This 
  was 
  the 
  worst 
  field 
  for 
  bugs 
  in 
  Sumner 
  county. 
  Neighbors 
  used 
  bugs 
  

   from 
  this 
  field 
  with 
  success." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  445. 
  — 
  (Iowa. 
  Infection 
  sent 
  June 
  23.) 
  "In 
  about 
  12 
  days 
  bugs 
  be- 
  

   gan 
  to 
  gather 
  in 
  bunches 
  and 
  die. 
  No 
  bugs 
  died 
  in 
  neighbors' 
  fields." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  479. 
  — 
  (Texas. 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  3.) 
  "In 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  the 
  bugs 
  were 
  

   lying 
  dead 
  in 
  piles." 
  

  

  Report 
  No. 
  490. 
  — 
  ( 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  8.) 
  " 
  In 
  six 
  days 
  there 
  were 
  bunches 
  of 
  

   dead~bugs 
  where 
  the 
  diseased 
  bugs 
  were 
  placed, 
  and 
  the 
  patches 
  were 
  getting 
  larger.' 
  

  

  