﻿REPORTS 
  FROM 
  FIELD 
  EXPERIMENTERS. 
  87 
  

  

  No. 
  269. 
  Hobaoe 
  Pobteb, 
  Peabody, 
  Marion 
  county. 
  Reported 
  success 
  to 
  field 
  

   agent 
  August 
  15th: 
  " 
  Received 
  infected 
  bugs 
  from 
  Nelson 
  Loomis. 
  Bugs 
  were 
  pres- 
  

   ent 
  in 
  his 
  wheat 
  field 
  in 
  numbers. 
  Used 
  as 
  directed 
  and 
  secured 
  highly 
  satisfactory 
  

   results. 
  Before 
  dying 
  the 
  bugs 
  bunched. 
  'The 
  bunched 
  bugs 
  seemed 
  to 
  burst.'" 
  

  

  No. 
  270. 
  Taylob 
  Riddle, 
  Marion, 
  Marion 
  county. 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  1st; 
  ex- 
  

   periment 
  successful, 
  as 
  reported 
  October 
  19th: 
  "The 
  bugs 
  sent 
  me 
  were 
  given 
  to 
  

   farmers, 
  who 
  scattered 
  them 
  in 
  their 
  corn 
  fields 
  that 
  were 
  infected 
  with 
  chinch-bugs. 
  

   They 
  reported 
  in 
  about 
  10 
  days: 
  Chinch-bugs 
  all 
  gone 
  except 
  dead 
  ones, 
  of 
  which 
  

   there 
  were 
  thousands. 
  Corn 
  that 
  was 
  covered 
  with 
  chinch-bugs 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  before 
  

   came 
  out 
  and 
  made 
  just 
  as 
  good 
  a 
  yield 
  as 
  the 
  corn 
  on 
  which 
  no 
  bugs 
  had 
  been. 
  

   We 
  vote 
  your 
  chinch-bug 
  destroyer 
  a 
  complete 
  success." 
  

  

  No. 
  271. 
  David 
  Sauhld, 
  Florence, 
  Marion 
  county. 
  Wrote 
  for 
  infection 
  to 
  save 
  

   his 
  corn 
  July 
  6th. 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  8th; 
  experiment 
  successful, 
  as 
  reported 
  Oc- 
  

   tober 
  25th: 
  "The 
  experiment 
  worked 
  favorably, 
  but 
  it 
  took 
  12 
  days 
  before 
  they 
  

   began 
  to 
  die. 
  I 
  went 
  through 
  my 
  corn 
  to-day, 
  and 
  I 
  find 
  the 
  stalks 
  are 
  full 
  of 
  dead 
  

   bugs, 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  still 
  dying. 
  I 
  am 
  the 
  only 
  one 
  in 
  this 
  neighborhood 
  who 
  tried 
  

   the 
  experiment. 
  My 
  neighbors' 
  bugs 
  came 
  into 
  the 
  field 
  all 
  the 
  time, 
  and 
  it 
  worked 
  

   on 
  them 
  like 
  chicken 
  cholera 
  works 
  on 
  chickens. 
  I 
  did 
  not 
  get 
  the 
  infection 
  soon 
  

   enough 
  is 
  all 
  the 
  trouble. 
  They 
  sapped 
  my 
  wheat. 
  I 
  gave 
  the 
  experiment 
  a 
  

   thorough 
  trial, 
  putting 
  them 
  out 
  every 
  48 
  hours 
  until 
  they 
  began 
  to 
  die. 
  I 
  had 
  no 
  

   faith 
  in 
  them 
  at 
  first, 
  but 
  now 
  know 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  humbug 
  in 
  it 
  — 
  it 
  works 
  all 
  right." 
  

   Reported 
  under 
  date 
  of 
  November 
  15th: 
  "I 
  raised 
  one-third 
  more 
  than 
  I 
  would 
  

   have 
  done 
  had 
  I 
  not 
  used 
  the 
  diseased 
  bugs." 
  

  

  No. 
  272. 
  A. 
  Tebey, 
  Lost 
  Springs, 
  Marion 
  county. 
  Applied 
  for 
  aid 
  July 
  2d: 
  

   " 
  There 
  are 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  bugs 
  here 
  at 
  work 
  upon 
  my 
  corn." 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  

   5th; 
  experiment 
  successful, 
  as 
  reported 
  December 
  17th: 
  "I 
  distributed 
  the 
  diseased 
  

   chinch-bugs 
  in 
  the 
  young 
  corn, 
  where 
  the 
  wheat 
  had 
  been 
  plowed 
  up 
  and 
  the 
  bugs 
  

   were 
  the 
  thickest. 
  After 
  a 
  few 
  days 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  bugs 
  seemed 
  to 
  disappear. 
  Some 
  

   dead 
  ones 
  were 
  found, 
  and 
  very 
  little 
  damage 
  was 
  done 
  to 
  the 
  corn 
  thereafter. 
  As 
  

   near 
  as 
  I 
  can 
  tell, 
  the 
  diseased 
  bugs 
  are 
  a 
  grand 
  success. 
  I 
  have 
  heard 
  of 
  other 
  

   parties 
  who 
  have 
  nearly 
  cleaned 
  out 
  the 
  bugs 
  on 
  their 
  farms 
  with 
  your 
  infected 
  bugs." 
  

  

  No. 
  273. 
  Chas. 
  F. 
  Waterman, 
  Peabody, 
  Marion 
  county. 
  Infection 
  sent 
  July 
  23d; 
  

   experiment 
  successful, 
  as 
  reported 
  October 
  28th: 
  "The 
  bugs 
  in 
  my 
  corn 
  where 
  the 
  

   infection 
  was 
  placed 
  were 
  scattering, 
  not 
  very 
  many 
  on 
  a 
  hill, 
  but 
  were 
  distributed 
  

   over 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  field 
  — 
  10 
  acres. 
  I 
  watched 
  results. 
  Could 
  not 
  find 
  any 
  dead 
  bugs, 
  

   but 
  they 
  did 
  not 
  seem 
  to 
  increase 
  much 
  if 
  any. 
  I 
  placed 
  some 
  infected 
  bugs 
  among 
  

   those 
  in 
  the 
  sorghum. 
  After 
  about 
  a 
  week 
  or 
  10 
  days 
  the 
  bugs 
  seemed 
  to 
  grow 
  

   scarce 
  in 
  the 
  sorghum. 
  I 
  could 
  not 
  find 
  dead 
  ones. 
  Can't 
  tell 
  whether 
  they 
  died 
  

   or 
  whether 
  the 
  sorghum 
  outgrew 
  them. 
  I 
  soon 
  found 
  some 
  places 
  in 
  my 
  wheat 
  

   stubble, 
  where 
  corn 
  shocks 
  had 
  been, 
  where 
  the 
  wide-bladed 
  grass 
  had 
  grown 
  up 
  

   rank 
  and 
  green. 
  Here 
  the 
  bugs 
  had 
  collected 
  very 
  thickly, 
  and 
  in 
  several 
  of 
  these 
  

   places 
  I 
  scattered 
  infected 
  bugs 
  and 
  watched 
  them 
  closely. 
  Could 
  see 
  no 
  change 
  

   until 
  the 
  eighth 
  day, 
  when 
  I 
  began 
  to 
  find 
  dead 
  ones, 
  and 
  the 
  tenth 
  day 
  they 
  were 
  

   nearly 
  all 
  dead. 
  The 
  few 
  that 
  were 
  alive 
  were 
  mostly 
  on 
  the 
  outskirts 
  of 
  the 
  green 
  

   patch. 
  The 
  dead 
  lay 
  in 
  heaps, 
  or 
  rather 
  in 
  hollows. 
  In 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  little 
  depres- 
  

   sions 
  in 
  the 
  ground 
  I 
  could 
  scoop 
  up 
  a 
  handful 
  in 
  a 
  place. 
  The 
  ' 
  stuffin' 
  was 
  all 
  

   knocked 
  out 
  of 
  them. 
  They 
  were 
  very 
  light, 
  would 
  blow 
  away 
  easily. 
  I 
  continued 
  

   to 
  distribute 
  infected 
  bugs 
  through 
  my 
  corn 
  field 
  and 
  wheat 
  stubble 
  where 
  I 
  could 
  

   find 
  bugs 
  until 
  pretty 
  late 
  in 
  August 
  — 
  until 
  the 
  bugs 
  became 
  so 
  scarce 
  that 
  I 
  had 
  

   great 
  difficulty 
  in 
  finding 
  fresh 
  bugs 
  to 
  infect." 
  Under 
  later 
  date: 
  " 
  I 
  saved 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  40 
  bushels 
  of 
  corn 
  and 
  $10 
  worth" 
  of 
  sorghum." 
  

  

  