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July 9: More Sporo bugs were scattered along the advance line of the 
chinch bugs. The bugs had made very little headway since the lid of 
July. From 2 to 3 gross of infection boxes are filled with Sporo 
from this field daily. The bugs, both old and young, seem to be but 
sparingly present in the field. Here and there a very few live hags 
may be found in the axils of the leaves and under clods. 
July 13: The Sporo is contiuually increasing in the field, but there 
is a Larger number of live bugs on the corn in places than could be seen 
on the 9th. 
July 16: There was a heavy rain on the loth. There are plenty of 
Sporo bugs for picking, and pickers are still at work and have not 
ceased since they began on the 5th. 
July 18: Sporo is increasing over the field, but the bugs are numer- 
ous in occasional spots throughout the field. These bugs are of all 
ages, but adults greatly predominate. The dead bugs or mummies 
gathered by the pickers now include large numbers of little red bugs 
as well as the pupae and the adults. 
July 22: A visit to the field shows the live bugs reduced to a satis- 
factory minimum : probably not more than 1 to 2 per cent of the num- 
ber which blackened the stalks for from 2 to 3 feet above the ground 
for 20 rows when the infection was first introduced. The entire field 
promises an abundant crop of corn and even the outer rows where the 
attack was most severe are well eared and luxuriant in foliage. 
From this field the pickers have already gathered 7.000 boxes of Spo- 
rotrichum-covered bugs as a reserve stock for early distribution to the 
farmers for use in the wheat fields in the spring of 1895. If in every 
township in the State of Kansas infested with chinch bugs a similar 
gathering should be made by the township trustees and distributed to 
the farmers early in the spring the chinch bug, in my opinion, would 
soon be reduced to an uninjurious minimum. 
A NEW ALFALFA AXD WHEAT PEST, 
On March 24, 1894, Mr. Ezra Main, of Jewell City, Kans., forwarded 
me a box of cutworms, stating that these worms were destroying the 
wheat in his neighborhood, taking it clean as they went. 
On March 31, Mr. William H. Chance, of Linda, in extreme western 
Kansas, forwarded me a box of the same species of cutworm, stating 
that they were in his wheat by the million and destroying it rapidly. 
I sent my son, Mr. W. A. Snow, to examine the situation, and append 
his notes as follow s : 
March 30: Visited field of wheat about 3 miles southeast of Jewell City, with Mr. 
Ezra Main, the correspondent. Hot winds had prevailed for several days prior to 
my visit, and the frost and wind had injured the wheat in that part of the State. 
Wheat was only 3 or 4 inches high and much of it lying flat. The field attacked by 
the cutworms belonged to Mr. John Lamon. His wheat had been taken clean for 
several rods into the field. The day of the visit was warm and sunshiny. The 
