AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 125 



ScARBORO, Aug. 29, 1892. 

 Prof. F. L. Harvey : 



My Dear Sir : — Yours of August 26th at baud. In explanation 

 of my sending the bugs to Prof. Balentine, will say I was on a 

 business trip to P'ryebnrg and seeing the damage the bugs were 

 doing I thought it the quickest way to find out what they were 

 and what to do to destroy them, to send to headquarters. I did 

 not know of anyone except Prof. Balentine to apply to. I have 

 written B. Walker McKeen in regard to the matter and hope you 

 will be invited to make a visit to North Fryeburg and make an 

 investigation. I feel that the matter is quite serious and demands 

 the attention of the State officials to keep it within bounds and to 

 stamp it out if possible. 



I have written to Simeon Charles at North Fryeburg to send 

 you some of the bugs in alcohol, and have also written to Nathaniel 

 Frye at Fryeburg Center, asking them both to give you any 

 information they can in regard to the time of the first appearance 

 of the pests, and also how extensive they have become. 



Yours truly, 



W. B. Nutter. 



ScARBORO, Maine. 

 Prof. F. L. Harvey : 



My Dear Sir : — Your letter received, and I have sent to Mr. S. 

 C. Charles, North Fryeburg, for further samples. Think he has 

 some of the full grown ones in alcohol. I find some of our Frye- 

 burg farmers claim the bugs have been seen here occasionally for 

 many years, twenty-five or thirty, at least. 



B. Walker McKeen. 



North Fryeburg, Sept. 6, '92. 

 Prof. F. L. Harvey : 



Dear Sir : — Brother Nutter wrote to me about those bugs that 

 he sent you, saying you thought them to be the chinch-bug. I 

 have got some in a vial which I shall send by this morning's mail. 

 They have worked here for years. Friend Batchelder thinks they 

 were here twenty-five years ago, but did but little damage. They 

 are confined to the intervale wholly — have not been on the upland 

 at all. They have not meddled with anything but herd grass and 

 red top until this fall, when they got on the sweet corn ; but have 

 injured it but slightly. Hoping to hear from you and some 

 remedy for the pest, I remain. 



Yours truly, 



Simeon Charles. 



