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a moderate rainfall, except in the extreme southern portion, where v 

 very few chinch bugs had been reported last year, so that it was, early 

 in the season, utterly impossible to foresee what was to follow— whether 

 we were to have a third attack or not, and in case we did, where in the 

 whole State we were to expect the outbreak. Farmers were apprehen- 

 sive of trouble and very uneasy, especially where they had felt the 



Fig. 1.— Map showing area in Ohio over which chinch hugs were ohserved in limited numhersin 

 L894: ~ : area seriously affected : r //(/00(/ y (original). 



effects of the ravages of the pest the year before, and to see a chinch 

 bug on their premises was the signal for a call for aid in fighting what 

 it was felt would, if not checked, prove even more destructive than last 

 year. At least two farmers committed suicide on account of these 

 troubles. We had distributed about 750 packages of Sporotrichum 

 globuliferum last year, and notwithstanding that there seemed little 

 hope of relief from this quarter in case the drought continued, we were 



