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Town. The expenses of the investigations will not be heavy, and 

 there are good grounds upon which satisfactory results may be 

 looked forward to. 



Dr. Edington considers that the spores of the fungus, which are 

 very numerous when grown in proper media, may be easily obtained 

 from cultivations and spread on a large scale by means of spray 

 pumps, the locusts when sprayed would carry, and further spread 

 the disease ; there would be no practical difficulty in the way of 

 carrying out this experiment, as a good pump would throw the 

 medium, with which the spores should be mixed, to a considerable 

 distance. 



Richmond, May 11, 1897. 



