﻿Contents. 
  

  

  PAGE 
  

  

  Frontispiece 
  — 
  Bacteriological 
  Laboratory. 
  

  

  Letter 
  of 
  Transmittal 
  3 
  

  

  Inteoduction, 
  5 
  

  

  Act 
  Establishing 
  the 
  Experiment 
  Station. 
  6 
  

  

  Observations 
  of 
  1888, 
  7 
  

  

  Observations 
  and 
  Experiments 
  of 
  1889, 
  8 
  

  

  Observations 
  and 
  Experiments 
  of 
  1890, 
  11 
  

  

  Observations 
  and 
  Experiments 
  of 
  1891: 
  

  

  I. 
  — 
  General 
  Notes 
  and 
  Results, 
  13 
  

  

  II. 
  — 
  Laboratory 
  Observations 
  and 
  Experiments, 
  . 
  24 
  

  

  III.— 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Field 
  Agent, 
  29 
  

  

  IV. 
  — 
  Reports 
  from 
  Field 
  Experimenters, 
  36 
  

  

  V. 
  — 
  List 
  of 
  Field 
  Experimenters 
  Making 
  Reports, 
  ...... 
  131 
  

  

  VI. 
  — 
  Summary 
  of 
  Field 
  Experiments, 
  168 
  

  

  VII. 
  — 
  Summary 
  of 
  Estimates 
  of 
  Crops 
  Saved, 
  171 
  

  

  VIII. 
  — 
  Map 
  Showing 
  Distribution 
  of 
  Field 
  Experiments 
  and 
  Results, 
  . 
  172 
  

  

  Meteorological 
  Conditions 
  and 
  the 
  Chinch-Bug, 
  173 
  

  

  History 
  of 
  the 
  Microphytous 
  Diseases 
  of 
  the 
  Chinch-Bug 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  

  

  States, 
  192 
  

  

  Bibliographical 
  Record, 
  216 
  

  

  Appendix 
  A: 
  Statement 
  of 
  Expenditures, 
  218 
  

  

  Appendix 
  B: 
  Directions 
  for 
  Obtaining 
  and 
  Applying 
  Infection, 
  .... 
  220 
  

  

  Plates 
  of 
  Micrococcus, 
  Sporotrichum, 
  and 
  Empusa, 
  222 
  

  

  Index 
  229 
  

  

  