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Kansas City, October, 1891. 
^ Editorial. 
A Montlily Journal, devoted to 
all branches of Prof, F. H. Snow of Lawrence, Kansas, is 
T" I — ! "TvT Q~j I — i a man with honor in hi^ own country; his 
work in the Scientific field has ]>een always 
The Academy of Science Pub. Co., inclined to the economical uses of science, 
Publishers and Proprietors, and to him we are indebted for the discovery- 
Kansas CitJ/", - - Missouri, of a means of destroying the chinch bugs. 
Editors. Few persons who have not seen the ravages 
R B. Trouslo- Joseph Sharp, M. D-. E» Butts, f jj^j insect can form any idea of the 
David H. Todd and 8id. J.Hare. J 
importance of this discovery. 
CORRESPONDENCE AND ITEMS UPON SUBJECTS OF IN ^j^^ foUowiug from thc Kausas City Tour- 
SCIENTISTS SOLICITED FROM ALL. fc. ^ J J 
TEREST TO 
nal of October 17, gives an idea of the 
.^D-^EIS-TISXl^TO- ZE^-S-XES work being done by Prof. Snow. 
REASONABLE. Lawrence; Kan., Oct. 16- [Special ] 
.. ^.^^ Chancellor Snow's chinch bug experiments 
WHEN WRITING FOR INFORMATION, IF YOU WISH TO & r 
MAKE CERTAIN OF A REPLY. PLEASE ENCLOSE STAMP. throughout thc statc aic dally provlug suc- 
~~ ' cesses, — he is in daily receipt ofletters from 
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE farmers telling of remarkable results. 
K^lxTS-fi^S OlT'S' Qj^g letter received yesterday from John 
AEadEinil nf SeIEIIEE. W. Koonce, Costello, Kas., states that on 
June 3 he received some infected bugs, 
OFFIC ERS FO R 1891 ^j^j^j^ placed in his fifteen acre wheat 
E BUTTS resident, field, which was fairly alive with active 
W H YEA.TON ....Vice President. , , , ^, ^ j ^ j , 
R B TROUSLOT, Recording Pec. chinch bugs and threatened to destroy the 
DAVID H. TODd'.V Corresponding Sec. 
EDWARD T. KEIM, Treasurer J\ , . , , 
FREDERICK MoINTOSH Librarian. In three days time these bugs were all 
din T HARE Curator. , , , 
EDWIN WALTERS Chairman, Ex. Com. dead and lay thick on the ground, covered 
with a white fungus growth, j^nother far- 
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION; mer near by, heard of the success and sent 
Single Sub. - - $1.00 per year for some infected bugs to place in his corn- 
Per year in Foreign Countries. - $1.10. ^^^^ -^^^ ^j^j^j^ chmch bugs had gone 
Sample Copies, - - 10 cts. each. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^he wheat had 
Remittances slionld be made by New York, rxxt 
Chicagoor Kansas City Draft; Money Order, ' .u- i .i, . ,ii 
Postal Note or any Express Co's. Order. Un- The bugs were so thick that the stalks 
T^^X'^ZX^X'Zfiv:"'iLll of com were fairly black with them, but it 
Money Orders and Drafts and Express Orders ^ f^^, ^ays after the diseased bugs had been 
^Tnd direct all Communications & Articles distributed in the field, the bugs were lying 
to Sid. J . Hare. Sec. dead all over the ground, and so great in 
SCIENTIST, Kansas City. Mo. numbers that they created a stench by their 
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